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Winkelstein, B., Jaumard, N. (2013). Biomechanical Model of Low Back Pain. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_587-2

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