Back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Wedderkopp, Niels ^a,c   Andersen, Lars Bo ^b   Froberg, Karsten ^c   Leboeuf Yde, Charlotte ^a,c  

^a Back Research Center   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK PAIN; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; BACK PAIN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 28444477684     PISSN: 14712474     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-6-52     Document Type: Article

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