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Chronic back pain is a comprehensive term for completely heterogeneous disorders having a similar symptom. (1988) spoke of the myth of uniformity when criticizing the attempts to view chronic back pain as a nosological unit. Chronic back pain, therefore, should be considered not as a disease but as a symptom for which its position is characteristic (Waddell, 1998). Back pain is defined as pain that is localized beneath the shoulder blades down to the gluteal folds. The most common from of back pain is low back pain where pain is localized around lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and coccyx. Sometimes pain radiates into the legs, or less often, into the waist or hips.
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Peters, M.L. (2004). Disturbances of Pain Perception in Chronic Back Pain. In: Lautenbacher, S., Fillingim, R.B. (eds) Pathophysiology of Pain Perception. Plenum Series in Rehabilitation and Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9068-6_4
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