Low Back Pain Handbook

• Author(s): Brian P. D'Orazio,
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
• Pages: 316
• ISBN_10: 0750696184
  ISBN_13: 9780750696180
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / General , Medical / Allied Health Services / Physical Therapy , Medical / Orthopedics , Medical / Surgery / General ,

Description:... 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.

* - Divided into three sections: etiology, evaluation, and management of low back pain *
- Documents and validates current evaluation and management strategies *
- Provides updated anatomical and biomechanical concepts