Surface EMG in chronic low back pain
✍ Scribed by Przemyslaw Lisiński
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 26 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0940-6719
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