Manual Therapy
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 475-477 , December 2008

Pain, brain imaging and physiotherapy—Opportunity is knocking

  • G. Lorimer Moseley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Le Gros Clark Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK
    • Oxford Centre for fMRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK
    • Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute Cnr Easy & Barker Streets Randwick 2031 Australia

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PII: S1356-689X(08)00144-6

doi: 10.1016/j.math.2008.10.001

Manual Therapy
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 475-477 , December 2008

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