Efficiency and Costs of Medical Exercise Therapy, Conventional Physiotherapy, and Self-Exercise in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain - Concepedia

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Efficiency and Costs of Medical Exercise Therapy, Conventional Physiotherapy, and Self-Exercise in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

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1998

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Tom Arild Torstensen, Anne Elisabeth Ljunggren, Helge Dyre Meen, Ellen Odland, Petter Mowinckel, Svante af Geijerstam

Abstract

The efficiency of medical exercise therapy and conventional physiotherapy is shown. Leaving patients with chronic low back pain untampered poses a risk of worsening the disability, resulting in longer periods of sick leave.

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