Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 13-18 , February 2010

The inter-rater reliability of a standardised classification system for pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain

  • Annelie Gutke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Division of Physiotherapy, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel: +46 768 986007/13 221 754; fax: +46 13 221 706.
    • ,
  • Gunilla Kjellby-Wendt

      Affiliations

    • Research and development, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden
    • Dept of Neuroscience and Physiology/Physiotherapy, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
    • ,
  • Birgitta Öberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Division of Physiotherapy, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Received 19 June 2008 ,Revised 9 April 2009 ,Accepted 15 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.math.2009.05.005

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Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 13-18 , February 2010

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