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Pain study finds health system chronically ill

This content was published on Oct 30, 2009 The authors of the study, “Musculoskeletal Heath – Chronic Pain”, said that many treatments including surgery were often carried out unnecessarily. Lead author Andreas Stuck, a geriatrics specialist at Bern University, told swissinfo.ch that the study revealed, for example, surgery for hip, shoulder or knee problems was scheduled 40 times more often in some regions…