The chronic whiplash syndrome - A simple matter of predisposition? [1]

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Kwan, Oliver ^a   Friel, Jon ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC PAIN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISABILITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALINGERING; MENTAL DISEASE; NECK PAIN; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 0036858246     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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