Psychosomatic Backache
- 28 March 1946
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 234 (13) , 427-430
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194603282341301
Abstract
Although in most discussions of backache there has been a tendency to stress the pathologic conditions that are present,1 yet the fact that the symptoms may exist without definite disease or deformities is undoubtedly recognized by all who must deal with the problem.2 In this paper, however, it is desired to suggest that the differential diagnosis of backache is incomplete without the consideration of psychogenic factors, for the latter are important not only as causes but also as contributing factors in cases of organic disease. The symptom of backache, like that of headache, is difficult to evaluate, and at times . . .Keywords
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