Combined Manual Therapy Techniques for the Treatment of Women With Infertility: A Case Series

@article{Kramp2012CombinedMT,
  title={Combined Manual Therapy Techniques for the Treatment of Women With Infertility: A Case Series},
  author={Mary Ellen Kramp},
  journal={Journal of Osteopathic Medicine Journal of Osteopathic Medicine},
  year={2012},
  volume={112},
  pages={680 - 684},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9892907}
}
Ten infertile women were treated with 1 to 6 sessions of manual therapy applied to the pelvic region, and six of the 10 women conceived within 3 months of the last treatment session, and all 6 of those women delivered at full term.
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