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Low Back Pain Handbook
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; (January 15, 1999)
Book Description
The non-specialists guide to treating low back pain.  This concise handbook will provide therapists and students with the tools they need to effectively treat low back pain for non-operative and post-surgical patients.

Book Info
Shenandoah Univ., Winchester, VA. Provides tools for clinical treatment, measurement of outcomes, and rehabilitation protocols, Covers three broad categories: anatomy and etiology, evaluation, and management. Halftone illustrations. For clinicians. Trim size: 9 x 6 inches. Softcover.

From the Publisher
This handbook is designed primarily for therapists who treat patients with low back pain but aren't considered specialists in the area. The etiology section details anatomy and biomechanics as well as diseases and disorders influencing the low back region. The next section, evaluation, includes epidemiology and taking a patient's history. The management section addresses both non-operative and post-surgical patients with low back pain.This handbook is designed primarily for therapists who treat patients with low back pain but aren't considered specialists in the area. The etiology section details anatomy and biomechanics as well as diseases and disorders influencing the low back region. The next section, evaluation, includes epidemiology and taking a patient's history. The management section addresses both non-operative and post-surgical patients with low back pain.

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Back Pain Rehabilitation
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1st edition (January 15, 1993)
Book Description
Unlike other texts on back pain, this book focuses on issues directly related to patient rehabilitation. Each section reviews the current literature to ensure the reliability of information, and balances that information with usable clinical strategies.The book is divided in to three main sections, with leading therapists and well-known clinicians sharing their experience on such topics as chronic pain, symptom magnification, muscle fatigue, exercise and truck dynamometers.
Book Info
Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy Associates, Inc., Fredericksburg, Virginia. Multidisciplinary text for clinicians on the treatment, exercise, psychosocial assessment, patient management, and measurement of functional impairment in lower back pain. 14 U.S. contributors

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