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Therapeutic Effect of Microcurrent Therapy in Infants With Congenital Muscular Torticollis

  • Min Young Kim, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, CHA University College of Medicine, Bundang CHA Hospital, Kyonggi-do, Korea†
    • ,
  • Dong Rak Kwon, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, CHA University College of Medicine, Bundang CHA Hospital, 351 Yatap-dong, Bundang-gu, Sungnam-si, Kyonggi-do, 463-712, Korea‡
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to D.R.K.
    • ,
  • Hak Il Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, CHA University College of Medicine, Bundang CHA Hospital, Kyonggi-do, Korea§

Received 20 January 2009 ,Accepted 11 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.06.008

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