Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 6 , Pages 552-556 , December 2010

Multimodal group rehabilitation compared to usual care for patients with chronic neck pain: A pilot study

  • Julie Sarah Hudson

      Affiliations

    • Physiotherapy Department, Woolmanhill Hospital, Aberdeen AB25 1LD, Scotland, UK
    • ,
  • Cormac Gerard Ryan

      Affiliations

    • School of Health and Social Care, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 OBA, Scotland, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 (0)141 331 3327; fax: +44 (0)141 331 8112.

Received 14 July 2009 ,Revised 9 June 2010 ,Accepted 14 June 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.math.2010.06.004

Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 6 , Pages 552-556 , December 2010

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