
The Biomechanics of Back Pain
Description
Key Features
- 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
Table of Contents
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
Product details
- No. of pages: 336
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Churchill Livingstone 2012
- Published: September 7, 2012
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- eBook ISBN: 9780702052910
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780702043130