Evidence-Based Management of Low Back Pain
- 1st Edition - January 31, 2011
- Latest edition
- Authors: Simon Dagenais, Scott Haldeman
- Language: English
Covering all commonly used interventions for acute and chronic low back pain conditions, Evidence-Based Management of Low Back Pain consolidates current scientific studies a… Read more
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Description
Description
Covering all commonly used interventions for acute and chronic low back pain conditions, Evidence-Based Management of Low Back Pain consolidates current scientific studies and research evidence into a single, practical resource. Its multidisciplinary approach covers a wide scope of treatments from manual therapies to medical interventions to surgery, organizing interventions from least to most invasive. Editors Simon Dagenais and Scott Haldeman, along with expert contributors from a variety of clinical and academic institutions throughout the world, focus on the best available scientific evidence, summarizing the results from the strongest to the weakest types of studies. No other book makes it so easy to compare the different interventions and treatment approaches, giving you the tools to make better, more informed clinical decisions.
Key features
Key features
- A multidisciplinary approach covers treatments from manual therapies to medical interventions to surgery, and many others in between.
- An interdisciplinary approach enables health care providers to work together.
- A logical, easy-to-follow organization covers information by intervention type, from least invasive to most invasive.
- Integration of interventions provides information in a clinically useful way, so it's easier to consider more than one type of treatment or intervention for low back pain, and easier to see which methods should be tried first.
- 155 illustrations include x-rays, photos, and drawings.
- Tables and boxes summarize key information.
- Evidence-based content allows you to make clinical decisions based on the ranking the best available scientific studies from strongest to weakest.
- Patient history and examination chapters help in assessing the patient's condition and in ruling out serious pathology before making decisions about specific interventions.
- Experienced editors and contributors are proven authors, researchers, and teachers, and practitioners, well known in the areas of orthopedics, pain management, chiropractic, physical therapy, and behavioral medicine as well as complementary and alternative medicine; the book's contributors include some of the leading clinical and research experts in the field of low back pain.
- Coverage based on The Spine Journal special issue on low back pain ensures that topics are relevant and up to date.
- A systematic review of interventions for low back pain includes these categories: patient education, exercise and rehabilitation, medications, manual therapy, physical modalities, complementary and alternative medicine, behavioral modification, injections, minimally invasive procedures, and surgery.
- Surgical interventions include decompression, fusion, disc arthroplasty, and dynamic stabilization.
- Additional coverage includes patient education and multidisciplinary rehabilitation.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Foreword by Charles Branch, MD
Preface
Contributors
Section 1: Introduction
1. Evidence-Based Management of Low Back Pain
2. Guide to Using This Textbook
3. Assessment of Low Back Pain
4. Management of Acute Low Back Pain
Section 2: Education
5. Physical Activity, Smoking Cessation, and Weight Loss
6. Watchful Waiting and Brief Education
7. Back Schools and Fear Avoidance Training
Section 3: Exercise
8. Lumbar Stabilization Exercise
9. Lumbar Strengthening Exercise
10. McKenzie Method
Section 4: Medication
11. Common Analgesics
12. Opioid Analgesics
13. Adjunctive Analgesics
Section 5: Physical Modalities
14. Electrotherapeutic Modalities and Physical Agents
15. Traction Therapy
Section 6: Manual Therapies
16. Massage Therapy
17. Spinal Manipulation and Mobilization
18. Medicine Assisted Manipulation
Section 7: Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies
19. Nutritional, Herbal, and Homeopathic Supplements
20. Needle Acupuncture
Section 8: Behavioral Therapies
21. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
22. Functional Restoration
Section 9: Injection Therapies
23. Epidural Steroid Injections
24. Trigger Point Injections
25. Prolotherapy
Section 10: Minimally Invasive Therapies
26. Lumbar Medial Branch Neurotomy
27. Intradiscal Thermal Therapies
28. Nucleoplasty
Section 11: Surgical Therapies
29. Decompression Surgery
30. Fusion Surgery and Disc Arthroplasty
Conclusion
Back Matter
Glossary
Answer Key
Index
Review quotes
Review quotes
"The authors went to great lengths to take a close-up look at a wide array of treatment options and they realized a nearly impossible task of streamlining the bulk of currently available evidence on chronic low back pain. For each treatment, five different sections were created to allow clinicians, patients, third-party payers and other stakeholders to make informed decisions; namely: description, theory, efficacy, safety and costs. This intelligent design was implemented identically for each treatment."
Backspace, Autumn 2011
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: February 11, 2011
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Simon Dagenais
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