Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 77-91 , February 2007

Low back pain (non-specific)

  • M. van Tulder, PhD (Professor of Health Technology Assessment)

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 20 5988 178.
  • The Low Back Pain Group of the Bone and Joint Health Strategies for Europe Project

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PII: S1521-6942(06)00108-2

doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2006.08.004

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 77-91 , February 2007