Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 33-56 , February 2003

Shoulder pain

  • Jens Ivar Brox, PhD, MD (Consultant of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)

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Received 1 October 2002 ,Accepted 1 October 2002.

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