Low back pain
Subtitle: mechanism, diagnosis, treatment
By: James M. Cox
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781608310029
Subjects: Low Back Pain; Chiropractic Manipulation; Therapy; Diagnosis
Description: "This text is prepared for the practicing chiropractic physician. To bring him or her to the maximum literature research in the world of spinal chiropractic adjusting, to diagnose spinal manipulation conditions, to diagnose pathologies causing spine pain that require other care, and to encompass flexion distraction decompression manipulative care for those with spine pain. This text is written to make the chiropractor the best nonsurgical spine doctor available. All profits from this text are donated to chiropractic research of flexion distraction adjusting. The seventh edition of this textbook is built upon the peer-reviewed literature and research studies in the diagnosis and treatment of low back and radicular pain, focusing on the nonsurgical chiropractic adjusting methods. The last edition was published in 1999, and this text is the last 11 years of updated material on the subject of low back pain. What are the principle advances in this subject in this time period? We have seen the progressive acceleration in surgical care with the artificial disc replacements; drastic increases with bolt, plate, and screw fixation, cage fusion; and anterior and posterior interbody fusion. The outcomes of these procedures are not outstanding with debate over their use. At the same time, there is an attempt to decrease invasive spine surgery via arthroscopy, intradiscal electrothermal coagulation, anti-inflammatory intradiscal injections, stem cell regeneration, percutaneous discectomy, rhizotomy, and steroid injections. All of these surgical interventions have demonstrated, as shown in this textbook, to have limitations on positive outcomes while encouraging nonsurgical forms of care to prevent, delay, or replace surgical care"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents: Chiropractic Today in the Care Of Low Back Pain; title: Biomechanics Of The Lumbar Spine And Pelvis; title: Neurophysiology And Pathology Of The Nerve Root And Dorsal Root Ganglion; title: Spinal Stenosis; title: The Sacroiliac Joint; title: Biomechanical Research And Clinical Outcome Results On Flexion Distraction Procedures; title: Diagnosis Of The Low Back And Leg Pain Patient; title: Biomechanics, Adjustment Procedures, Ancillary Therapies, And Clinical Outcomes Of Cox Distraction Technique; title: Care Of The Intervertebral Disc Herniation And Stenosis Patient With Cox Protocols; title: Facet Syndrome; title: Spondylolisthesis; title: Transitional Segment; title: Nutritional Factors And Treatment Of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration And Osteoporosis Of Bone; title: Rehabilitation Of The Low Back Pain Patient; title: Fibromyalgia; title: Spinal Manipulation Of The Pregnant Female.