Back pain : a guide for the primary care physician /
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA :
American College of Physicians,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Back pain algorithms
- Epidemiology of back pain
- Anatomy of the spine
- Pain pathophysiology
- Diagnoses: a glossary approach
- Diagnostic tests for back pain : a glossary approach
- Acute back pain
- Acute back pain : a management paradigm
- Physical examination for acute back pain
- When low back pain represents severe disease
- Yellow flags : predicting disability
- Acute nonradiating low back pain
- Acute radiating low back pain
- Medications for the management of acute and subacute back pain and medications for injection techniques
- Acute rehabilitation of low back pain
- Subacute back pain
- Subacute back pain : physical examination
- Subacute back pain: physical examination
- Imaging of back pain
- Electromyography and low back pain
- Rheumatologic disorders of the spine
- Physician prescription and monitoring of physical therapy
- Intervention therapy in disorders of the spine
- Surgical treatment for back pain
- Subacute rehabilitation : the injured worker
- Therapies for subacute back pain : a glossary approach
- Chronic back pain
- Chronic low back pain
- Low back pain : exhausting the differential diagnosis
- Rehabilitation diagnostic assessments
- Rehabilitation treatments for chronic back pain
- Medications for the management of chronic back pain
- Invasive treatments for chronic pain
- Alternative and complementary therapies
- Back pain laws and disability
- Special issues
- Stopping physical therapy
- Prevention of low back pain and disability
- Back pain in children and adolescents
- Athletes with back pain
- Back pain in pregnancy
- Back pain in people with disabilities
- Low back pain in the older patient
- Administrative and policy issues