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The pain is back, when I was doing just spine

BDJ Student volume 27, pages 36–39 (2020)Cite this article

By Samuel Cope, Foundation Dentist.

The aim of this article is to highlight this common issue and improve the understanding, management and prevention strategies for lower back pain. As a current dental student and a practising musculoskeletal physiotherapist, I have an ardent interest in musculoskeletal pain and its management. During dental training I have overheard numerous lower back pain complaints from staff and students alike, including: 'I can't sit for more than an hour without getting pain in my back' and 'will I have back pain for the rest of my life?'

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