Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 6 , Pages 542-546 , December 2010

Reliability of manual examination and frequency of symptomatic cervical motion segment dysfunction in cervicogenic headache

Received 3 December 2009 ,Revised 26 April 2010 ,Accepted 8 June 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.math.2010.06.002

Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 6 , Pages 542-546 , December 2010

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