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Life Situations, Emotions, and Backache

Psychosomatic MedicinePublished 1 January 1952
Thomas H. Holmes, Harold G. Wolff
Citations79
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score1.00
SNIP0.84

TL;DR

Attention has been focused on the participation of the skeletal musculature in patterns of behavior exhibited by patients with backache and other muscle pain, and the role of skeletal muscle activity in the natural history of the backache syndrome.

Abstract

Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry of the New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical School. Supported in part by grants from the Commonwealth Fund, the estate of Lester N. Hofheimer, and the New York Telephone Company; *Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington Received September 14, 1950

Keywords

Health Professions