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Back pain : a movement problem : a clinical approach incorporating relevant research and practice /

Back Pain: a movement problem is a practical manual to assist all students and clinicians concerned with the evaluation, diagnosis and management of the movement related problems seen in those with spinal pain disorders. It offers an integrative model of posturo-movement dysfunction which describes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Key, Josephine
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2010.
Subjects:
Backache.
Movement disorders.
Back Pain > therapy
Back > physiology
Exercise Therapy
Holistic Health
Movement > physiology
Backache
Movement disorders
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The problem of back pain
  • The development of posture and movement
  • The analysis of movement
  • Classification of muscles
  • Salient aspects of normal function of the torso
  • Changed control of posture and movement : the dysfunctional state
  • The common features of posturomovement dysfunction
  • The two primary patterns of torso dysfunction
  • The clinical posturomovement impairment syndromes
  • Examining probable contributions towards dysfunctional posture and movement
  • A 'functional pathology of the motor system' involves a pattern generating mechanism underlying most spinal pain disorders
  • Therapeutic approach
  • Inherent implications in this model.