Prevention of lowback pain a systematic review and meta-Analysis

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 199-208

  Steffens, Daniel ^a   Maher, Chris G ^a   Pereira, Leani S M ^b   Stevens, Matthew L ^b   Oliveira, Vinicius C ^c   Chapple, Meredith ^c   Teixeira Salmela, Luci F ^a   Hancock, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXERCISE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL LEAVE; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION;

EXERCISE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SICK LEAVE;

EID: 84957935762     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7431     Document Type: Review

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