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Volume 10, Issue 2
September 2004

DELAYED ONSET
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Questionable Causation:
  1. Recall Bias
  2. Post hoc ergo propter hoc
  3. Recurrence of pre-existing pattern

With notable exceptions, local pain that occurs de novo weeks or months after an injury was not Caused by that injury

If s/he proposes causation of de novo onset of acute pain more than hours after injury, ask the medical expert to explain the proposed biological mechanism

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