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Everyone gets back pain. It costs this country £3,000 million each year in absenteeism from work. But carers cannot take time off work, even though constant lifting duties mean that they suffer more than most. And because of that it is all too easy for their back problems to get worse and worse.
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Crompton, S. (1994). Looking After Your Back. In: Crompton, S. (eds) The Carers Guide. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13869-2_31
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