The Epidemiology of Low Back Pain in the Rest of the World: A Review of Surveys in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

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  1997

• Venue

  Spine

• Publication date

  1997-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/00007632-199708010-00013PMID 9259786
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