Clinical update: low back pain

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9563, 2007, Pages 726-728

  Balagué, Federico ^a   Mannion, Anne F ^b   Pellisé, Ferran ^c   Cedraschi, Christine ^d  

^a Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^b SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d Division of General Medical Rehabilitation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847305039     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60340-7     Document Type: Note

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