Neck pain and whiplash

Clinical Pain Management: Chronic Pain, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 484-500

  Bogduk, Nikolai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

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