cover image - The Biomechanics of Back Pain - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780702054495
Copyright: 2012
Publication Date: 09-07-2012
Page Count: 336
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $62.99

The Biomechanics of Back Pain - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition

by Michael A. Adams, BSc PhD, Nikolai Bogduk, BSc(Med) MB BS MD PhD DSc DipAnat DipPainMed FAFRM FAFMM FFPM(ANZCA), Kim Burton, OBE DO PhD Hon FFOM and Patricia Dolan, BSc PhD

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cover image - The Biomechanics of Back Pain - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780702054495
Copyright: 2012
Publication Date: 09-07-2012
Page Count: 336
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $62.99
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    • Established authoritative text for clinicians, lecturers, researchers and those working in the medico-legal arena

    • Emphasizes the latest perspectives in research and shows how it is now leading to advances in clinical methodology

    • Provides an overview of the best original research – including more than 350 new references – to provide researchers with the latest and most important information relating to back pain

    • Contains over 150 full-colour line artworks and more than 60 photographs
    • Additional chapters devoted to Sensorimotor Control, and Cervical Spine Anatomy and Biomechanics

    • Includes more than 350 new references

    • Now published in full colour with improved page design and navigation

    • Bonus website containing useful PowerPoint presentations, which include seminars entitled Back Pain and Forces on the Spine as well as an overview of the Psychosocial Flags Framework

  • 1. Introduction

    2. The vertebral column and adjacent structures

    3. Muscles and fascia of the lumbar spine

    4. Nerves and blood supply to the lumbar spine

    5. Back pain

    6. Epidemiology of back trouble

    7. Biology of spinal tissues

    8. Growth and ageing of the spine

    9. Forces acting on the thoracolumbar spine

    10. Mechanical function of the thoracolumbar spine

    11. Mechanical damage to the thoracolumbar spine

    12. Cervical spine biomechanics

    13. Posture, creep and "functional pathology"

    14. Sensorimotor control

    15. Spinal degeneration

    16. Preventing back pain

    17. Conservative management of back pain

    18. Biomechanics rationale for spinal surgery

    19. Surgery for disc prolapse, spinal stenosis and back pain

    20. Medico-legal considerations

    21. Summary and Conclusions

  • Michael A. Adams, BSc PhD, Professor of Biomechanics, Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, Nikolai Bogduk, BSc(Med) MB BS MD PhD DSc DipAnat DipPainMed FAFRM FAFMM FFPM(ANZCA), Emeritus Professor; Conjoint Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy (Anatomy), Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, Australia, Kim Burton, OBE DO PhD Hon FFOM, Director, Spinal Research Unit, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK and Patricia Dolan, BSc PhD, Reader in Spine Biomechanics, Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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