Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 471-482 , June 2008

A best-evidence review of diagnostic procedures for neck and low-back pain

  • Sidney M. Rubinstein, DC, MSc (Research Fellow)

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PII: S1521-6942(07)00136-2

doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.12.003

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 471-482 , June 2008

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