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Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire

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1991 • 341 citations

Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: 5-Year Follow-Up after Spinal Cord Stimulator Implantation

1991 • 301 citations

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1992 • 268 citations

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1985 • 243 citations

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1986 • 243 citations

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Treatment of chronic pain by epidural spinal cord stimulation: a 10-year experience

1991 • 236 citations

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1989 • 235 citations

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Spinal cord stimulation in failed back surgery syndrome

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1987 • 46 citations

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1991 • 37 citations

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Spinal cord stimulation in 112 patients with epi-/intradural fibrosis following operation for lumbar disc herniation

1990 • 28 citations

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1993 • 22 citations