Deployment-related risk factors of low back pain: a study among danish soldiers deployed to Iraq.
Where much is known about the consequences of spinal and low back pain (LBP) during military deployments, there is lesser knowledge of risk factors for LBP among the deployed forces. The objective of this study was to identify deployment-related exposures associated with LBP. The study was a questio...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 179; no. 4; pp. 451 - 459 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2014
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