Treatments for back pain: Can we get past trivial effects?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 957-958

  Deyo, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BACKACHE; BED REST; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; EXPECTATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIFESTYLE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NECK PAIN; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKELETON TRACTION; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL RISK;

EID: 11144331482     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-141-12-200412210-00012     Document Type: Review

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