title: The lives of patients before presentation with pain in the neck or back.
abstract: More significant events occurred in the lives of patients during the three months before presentation in general practice with pain in the neck or back than in a control group of symptomless patients.These findings were obtained by the completion by patients of a short questionnaire and their significance is discussed.
mesh_terms: D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D009333:Neck; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*