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Volume 148, Issue 3 , Pages 363-364 , March 2010

Obstacles to recovery after an episode of low back pain; the ‘usual suspects’ are not always guilty

Received 4 December 2009 ,Accepted 9 December 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00722-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.12.007

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