Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 567-579 , June 2007

Quality of life in chronic musculoskeletal pain

  • Emine Handan Tüzün, PT, PhD (Associate Professor)

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doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.03.001

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 567-579 , June 2007

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