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Oct 2020
25m 14s

Low Back Pain CPG (2012): Red Flags and ...

David Smelser and Austin Kercheville
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How is the OCS going to approach low back pain differential diagnosis and red flags? Dr. David Smelser discusses low back pain red flags using the CPG as well as a recent JOSPT article by Finucane et al. You can bet your bottom dollar this will be on the exam. Find the Finucane article at https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2020.9971. Support the show U ... Show More
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