Back Pain: A Guide for the Primary Care Physician

Back Pain: A Guide for the Primary Care Physician
ISBN-10
1930513593
ISBN-13
9781930513594
Series
Back Pain
Category
Medical
Pages
537
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
ACP Press
Author
Andrew J. Haig

Description

Back pain is a complex tangle of social, psychological, physical, and medical factors that frustrates disease-orientated physicians and excites physical medicine and rehabilitation types. For this problem, "diagnosis-treat-cure" is supplanted by rehab strategies to minimize impairment, disability, and handicap. Physical medicine approaches to cure and rehabilitation approaches to quality of life are centerpieces of back pain management. The newest volume in the ACP Key Diseases series, Back Pain presents 40 chapters of vital information divided into five sections: Back Pain Basics; Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Back Pain; and Special Issues, including pregnant and elderly patients, and athletes and younger patients. Clinicians will find this an invaluable resource for successful back pain therapy.

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