Manual Therapy
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 52-60 , February 2005

The impact of neurodynamic testing on the perception of experimentally induced muscle pain

Received 11 March 2004 ,Revised 8 July 2004 ,Accepted 27 July 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.math.2004.07.007

Manual Therapy
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