Feasibility and therapeutic efficacy of a two-week low-level laser acupuncture therapy for shoulder and neck pain in office workers: Protocol for a pilot, single-blind, double-armed, randomised controlled trial

• Carol Chunfeng Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Chunfeng Wang, Lisa Whitehead, Travis Cruickshank, Johnny Lo, Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia, Jun Wen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: c.wang@ecu.edu.au

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6672-7187

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• Lisa Whitehead ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Chunfeng Wang, Lisa Whitehead, Travis Cruickshank, Johnny Lo, Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia, Jun Wen

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

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• Travis Cruickshank ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Chunfeng Wang, Lisa Whitehead, Travis Cruickshank, Johnny Lo, Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia, Jun Wen

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

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• Johnny Lo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Chunfeng Wang, Lisa Whitehead, Travis Cruickshank, Johnny Lo, Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia, Jun Wen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

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• Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Chunfeng Wang, Lisa Whitehead, Travis Cruickshank, Johnny Lo, Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia, Jun Wen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Jun Wen

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carol Chunfeng Wang, Lisa Whitehead, Travis Cruickshank, Johnny Lo, Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia, Jun Wen

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

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