Orthopaedics
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- When does low back pain actually need an MRI scan? Recognising red flags, where the 80% lifetime figure comes from, and the new referral-free physiotherapy rules
"80%" is not a global figure. It is one point inside a range. The World Health Organization's low back pain fact sheet (19 June 2023) publishes no
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