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Low Back Pain

"Low Back Pain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Acute or chronic pain in the lumbar or sacral regions, which may be associated with musculo-ligamentous SPRAINS AND STRAINS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; and other conditions.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Low Back Pain" by people in this website by year, and whether "Low Back Pain" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 39 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2016
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