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Imaginary weather link

The notion that lower back pain flares up during certain kinds of weather may be all in your head, a new study suggests. Researchers in [b]Australia[/b] tracked nearly 1,000 people who were seen for acute low back pain at primary care clinics in [b]Sydney[/b]. They found no connection between back pain and temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind direction or precipitation.

[link url=http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=179416]Full Medicinenet report[/link]
[link url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acr.22378/abstract]Arthritis Care & Research abstract[/link]

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