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Low back pain is a problem of great medical, social, and economic concern. Each year, 2–5% of the population develop low back pain1,2. This means that about 80% of all people will experience low back pain at some stage during their adult life3,4. Svensson showed that almost 70% of 40- to 47-year-old men in Göteborg, Sweden had experienced low back pain. Fifty percent of these men, as a result, had missed work at least once1. In Great Britain between 1960 and 1970, low back pain caused 3.6% of all sickness absence days and the number of sickness absence periods per 1000 persons was 11 days for women and 22.6 days for men5.

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    Nicholas Bellamy MD, MSc, FRCP(Glas), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(C), FACP (Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Director) (Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Director)

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    Nicholas Bellamy MD, MSc, FRCP(Glas), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(C), FACP (Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Director) (Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Director)

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Tsang, I.K.Y. (1991). Low back pain. In: Bellamy, N. (eds) Prognosis in the Rheumatic Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3896-3_16

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