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Back pain.
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Support groups
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References used for this fact sheet
- Back pain: A very common condition (2000) [online], Arthritis Victoria, Australia. More information here.
- Physiotherapy and you: backs [online], Australian Physiotherapy Association. More information here.
- Review Group Topic: Back [online], The Cochrane Library. More information here.
- Acute low back pain [online], National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia. More information here.
- ‘Specific spinal exercise substantially reduces the risk of low back pain recurrence’ [online summary], in Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, vol. 48. More information here.
- ‘Methodological challenges in studying recurrence of low back pain’ [online], in Journal of Occupational Medicine, vol. 13, no. 1, March 2003, pp. 21–31(11). More information here.
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Last updated: January 2009
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