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Research Paper

Living with chronic neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of community experience

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Pages 2203-2211 | Received 07 Aug 2014, Accepted 22 Dec 2014, Published online: 20 Jan 2015

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