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. 1981 Apr-Jun;23(2):109–114.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF BIOFEEDBACK AND SHAVASANA (YOGA) IN TENSION HEADACHE*

B B Sethi 1, J K Trivedi 2, Rajiv Anand 3
PMCID: PMC3013159  PMID: 22058528

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