Back pain, a communicable disease?
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SPECIAL THEME: COMMUNICABLE DISEASE Back pain, a communicable disease?
Background Back pain (BP) is a frequent disorder affecting currently up to 40% of adults in Western Europe. Most of it is said to be ‘non-specific’, i.e. lacking an obvious patho-anatomical explanation. It is seldom the consequence of a contagious disease caused by microorganisms. This does not exclude it from being communicable if ‘communicable’ is to refer to something being transmitted by sh...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym220