Abstract
Mark Peacock is a senior physiotherapist at Westmorland General Hospital. Drs Hundle and Greer are now consultant anaesthetists in the region and undertook this work while training in pain management at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay. An abstract of the early phases of this work was presented to the Anaesthetic Research Society in 2001.
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