title: The conundrum of chronic back pain. One person's story.
abstract: Providing effective medical care for chronic back pain patients in the absence of a specific diagnosis is one of the challenges of clinical general practice. The illness, as perceived by the patient, and its associated disability may be only loosely related to the disease pathology.
authors.affiliation: Channon Street Medical Centre, Gympie, Queensland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Margolis
mesh_terms: D001416:Back Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans