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By Gordon Waddell. 438 pp. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1999. (Distributed by W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia.) $60. ISBN 0-443-06039-8.

If we are ever to make substantial progress in reducing the burden of disability from back pain in developed countries, credit will be due Gordon Waddell and a small group of persons who, through their insight and research, have helped forge a new paradigm for the care of patients with back pain. Waddell is an orthopedic surgeon from Scotland who came to the realization during his clinical training that the medical model of back pain was inadequate for evaluating and treating many patients. Over the next two decades, through clinical observation, his own research, and the research of others, Waddell . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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