On the definitions and physiology of back pain, referred pain, and radicular pain

1 December 2009

journal article
review article
Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Pain

Vol. 147 (1), 17-19
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2009.08.020

Abstract

Article discusses the definitions and physiology of the different types of back pain such as nociceptive back pain, Somatic referred pain, Radicular pain, and Radiculopathy and highlights the problems amongst clinicians in confusing these definitions

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