Treatment- and Cost-Effectiveness of Early Intervention for Acute Low-Back Pain Patients: A One-Year Prospective Study
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
- Vol. 13 (1) , 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1021823505774
Abstract
In an attempt to prevent acute low-back pain from becoming a chronic disability problem, an earlier study developed a statistical algorithm which accurately identified those acute low-back pain...Keywords
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