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Low Back Pain

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Lower back consists of the nerves, spine, muscles, and ligaments.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Ave. MMC‐MAP Rm: LL400, Bronx, NY, 10467, USA

    Kelly Yan Chen BS

  2. Multidisciplinary Pain Program, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Avenue, LL400, Bronx, NY, 10467, USA

    Naum Shaparin MD

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Ave, LL400, Bronx, NY, 10128, USA

    Karina Gritsenko MD

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Correspondence to Karina Gritsenko MD .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    R. Jason Yong

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Nguyen

  3. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ehren Nelson

  4. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Health Care Center at Chestnut Hill, Center for Perioperative Research, Sedation for Interventional Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Chen, K.Y., Shaparin, N., Gritsenko, K. (2017). Low Back Pain. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_121

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