Retraction. Low back pain status in elite and semi-elite Australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), Australian-rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls.

The journal has been informed by the authors' institution that, contrary to the statement in this article [1], the Macquarie University Human Ethics Committee did not receive an application for ethics approval for this study. As the study was conducted without institutional ethics committee oversight, this article has been retracted.

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