Moxibustion for treating knee osteoarthritis: study protocol of a multicentre randomised controlled trial.

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Published in BMC Complement Altern Med on March 13, 2013

Authors

Seunghoon Lee1, Kun Hyung Kim, Tae-Hun Kim, Jung-Eun Kim, Joo-Hee Kim, Jung Won Kang, Kyung-Won Kang, So-Young Jung, Ae-Ran Kim, Hyo-Ju Park, Mi-Suk Shin, Kwon-Eui Hong, Ho-Sueb Song, Jin-Bong Choi, Hyung-Jun Kim, Sun-Mi Choi

Author Affiliations

1: Acupuncture, Moxibustion & Meridian Research Group, Medical Research Division, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea.

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