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Volume 150, Issue 1 , Pages 22-28 , July 2010

Compensation claim lodgement and health outcome developmental trajectories following whiplash injury: A prospective study

  • Michele Sterling

      Affiliations

    • Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), Centre for Clinical Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health, Division of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), Level 3, Mayne Medical School, Herston 4006, Qld, Australia. Tel.: +61 7 33655344; fax: +61 7 3346 4603.
    • ,
  • Joan Hendrikz

      Affiliations

    • Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), The University of Queensland, Australia
    • ,
  • Justin Kenardy

      Affiliations

    • Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), The University of Queensland, Australia

Received 5 August 2009 ,Revised 6 December 2009 ,Accepted 8 February 2010.

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PII: S0304-3959(10)00088-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.02.013

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Volume 150, Issue 1 , Pages 22-28 , July 2010

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