Back, chest and abdominal pain- is it spinal referred pain?

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 422-429

  Harding, Geoff ^a,b   Yelland, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Musculoskeletal medicine practitioner ^*

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRED PAIN; REVIEW; SPINE DISEASE; THORAX PAIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; BACK PAIN; CHEST PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, REFERRED; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 34548848586     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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