Management of Back Pain
Churchill Livingstone (Verlag)
978-0-443-04630-8 (ISBN)
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The second edition of this text updates the reader on progress in the many disciplines related to the lumbar spine. It covers basic science, assessment, diagnosis and management, and prevention. Reflecting the latest advances in the field, the text features expanded coverage of spinal stenosis, decompression and spinal fusion. New chapters on the healthy spine and the upright posture, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, soft tissue spine pathology, non-operative management and the ageing spine are included.
Part 1 Introduction: upright man; back pain - a problem - personal, national and clinical; the causes of back pain - aetiology. Part 2 Basic science: structures that fail; the nociceptve source; the significance of the vertebral canal - compromise of its contents and its development; structures that restrain shear - and their failure; pain perception and behaviour. Part 3 Clinical assessment and investigation of back pain: the consultation; radiological investigation of patients with back pain; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the investigation of patients with back pain; radionuclide bone scanning in back pain management; ultrasound in spinal investigation; diagnostic pain provocation. Part 4 Diagnosis and management: herniated nucleus pulposus - pathology, diagnosis and management; root entrapment syndrome from lateral canal stenosis - pathology, presentation and management; neurogenic claudication - its clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, pathology and management; spinal segmental instability - biomechanical definition, symptoms, signs, radiological features and management; lysis of the pars interarticularis - pathology, identification of the defect, clinical significance and management; unilateral spondylolysis - pathology, symptoms and management; retrolisthesis and degenerative lumbar scoliosis - pathology, clinical significance and treatment; fractures of the vertebrae - spinal injury, pathology, symptoms, management and natural history - and osteoporotic fractures; spinal fusion - indications and methods; soft tissue injury; conservative management; the elderly spine. Part 5 The problem back patient: repeat spinal surgery; back pain - an exhibition of distress. Part 6 Prevention: prevention of back pain.
| Zusatzinfo | 25 line drawings, 185 half-tones, index |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 254 x 22 mm |
| Gewicht | 1144 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Unfallchirurgie / Orthopädie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-443-04630-1 / 0443046301 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-443-04630-8 / 9780443046308 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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