Manual Therapy
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 38-43 , February 2005

Do Norwegian manual therapists provide management for patients with acute low back pain in accordance with clinical guidelines?

  • Liv Inger Strand

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Section for Physiotherapy Science, University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, 5018 Bergen, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +47-55586123, fax: +47-55586139.
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  • Alice Kvale

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Section for Physiotherapy Science, University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, 5018 Bergen, Norway
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  • Målfrid Råheim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Section for Physiotherapy Science, University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, 5018 Bergen, Norway
    • ,
  • Anne Elisabeth Ljunggren

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Section for Physiotherapy Science, University of Bergen, Kalfarveien 31, 5018 Bergen, Norway

Received 8 December 2003 ,Revised 4 May 2004 ,Accepted 8 July 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.math.2004.07.003

Manual Therapy
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 38-43 , February 2005

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