A cure for back pain?

Pain

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-8

  Bogduk, Nikolai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM EXTRACT; LIDOCAINE; METHYLENE BLUE; NITRIC OXIDE; PLACEBO;

BACKACHE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISCOGENIC PAIN; DISKOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; REIMBURSEMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; METHYLENE BLUE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77349101775     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.05.022     Document Type: Editorial

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