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Research Articles

Patients’ experiences of treatment-relevant processes in multimodal pain rehabilitation for severe complex regional pain syndrome – a qualitative study

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Pages 1862-1869 | Received 07 Oct 2022, Accepted 28 Apr 2023, Published online: 16 May 2023

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