Managing Low Back Pain

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This state-of-the-art new edition offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary guidance on low back pain. It examines essential principles, diagnostic techniques and treatments, aswell as prevention and education. Each chapter has been thoroughly updated or entirely rewritten to give readers quick access to the latest advances.

new chapters on multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs, manual therapy, the worker and low back pain, distinguishing between easy and difficult conditions, and more.

Integrates the expertise of 15 leading specialists representing the fields of orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, osteopathy, physical therapy, and chiropractic medicine.

Examines a full range of treatment options, including manual manipulation methods and surgical treatment approaches.

Illustrates all key structures, lesions, and treatment techniques with nearly 300 superb photographs, diagrams, and radiographs.

Provides a wealth of specific management how-tos, pearls, and pitfalls.

Offers an in-depth understanding of the physical and mathematical principles that underlie lower back pain syndromes.

Reviews anatomy, pathology, biomechanics, and concepts of pain mechanisms.

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