Psychosocial assessment: The emergence of a new fashion or a new tool in physiotherapy for musculoskeletal pain?

Physiotherapy

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 530-535

  Watson, Paul J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; COST OF ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 0032847494     PISSN: 00319406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9406(05)61246-1     Document Type: Article

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