PM&R
Volume 1, Issue 8 , Pages 744-754 , August 2009

New Concepts in the Assessment and Treatment of Regional Musculoskeletal Pain and Sports Injury

  • Joanne Borg-Stein, MD

      Affiliations

    • Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton; Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston; and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA†
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: J.B.-S., Spaulding-Wellesley, 65 Walnut Street, Suite 260, Wellesley, MA 02481
    • ,
  • Jason L. Zaremski, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tufts Medical Center, and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA‡
    • ,
  • Mary Alice Hanford, MA

      Affiliations

    • Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA§

Received 11 March 2008 ,Accepted 16 October 2008.

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