Effectiveness of muscle stretching exercises with and without laser therapy at tender points for patients with fibromyalgia.

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

• Publication date

  2007-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  PMID 17631737
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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