Back pain : a guide for the primary care physician /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haig, Andrew J.
Corporate Author: American College of Physicians
Other Authors: Colwell, Miles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : American College of Physicians, 2005.
Subjects:
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