Low Back Pain Syndrome (Paperback, 5Rev ed)

This popular series, by a distinguished professor of physical medicine, has proved helpful to physicians and therapists all over the world. Each book offers sound, common-sense guidance in diagnosing and treating painful and disabling conditions.

In very book, the author's lucid text and instructional drawings provide a strong foundation in the basic and functional anatomy of the pain's region. He discusses various painful conditions and shows how each condition is related to the abnormal mechanism causing the pain or disability. Specific and practical suggestions for treatment help to correct or alter the abnormality discovered from the history and physical examination. Details on the individual books follow.
-- Explores the basics of understanding low back pain, its mechanisms, its evaluation, and its clinical management
-- Relates low back pain to its psychological, hormonal, and mechanical basis
-- Explores recent findings and refutes many outdated and untrue theories about low back pain