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Volume 151, Issue 2 , Pages 330-336 , November 2010

The persistence of pain behaviors in patients with chronic back pain is independent of pain and psychological factors

Received 13 September 2009 ,Revised 5 June 2010 ,Accepted 6 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.07.004

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