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. 1987 Mar;28(3):357-364.
doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(87)90069-8.

Description of pain and the relationship with psychological factors in patients with low back pain

E M M Oostdam  1 , H J Duivenvoorden
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Description of pain and the relationship with psychological factors in patients with low back pain

E M M Oostdam et al. Pain. 1987 Mar.

Abstract

Description of pain and the relationship with psychological factors was studied in 82 patients with low back pain. Both description of pain and psychological factors were found to have high loadings on one dimension, without being identical variables. A relationship was found between psychological factors and the duration of back pain but not to a degree to which the back pain is found to be explained somatically. The description of pain bore no relationship to the duration of back pain nor to the degree to which back pain can be somatically explained.

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