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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Ali Oliveira, Richard Gevirtz, David Hubbard
STUDY DESIGN: Randomized control trial conducted between June 2000 and September 2002. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a short psycho-educational video shown in the Emergency Department shortly after the injury would produce follow-up pain reductions and reduced medical utilization. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Chronic pain following a whiplash injury is one example of the massive medical/legal problem of chronic muscular pain. Approaches using local pain sources (trigger points) have shown promise as treatment models for this type of pain...
July 1, 2006: Spine
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