Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 17-22 , January 2009

Acute back pain

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PII: S1357-3039(08)00311-3

doi: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2008.10.006

Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 17-22 , January 2009

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