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The Back Pain Revolution
About this book
Accessible to all health care professionals, this text provides a guide to understanding and managing back pain and is one of the premier examples of a biopsychosocial approach to medicine. The content challenges unsubstantiated beliefs regarding the best way to treat and manage back pain and presents an interdisciplinary debate on the subject. In a society where patients are demanding more effective approaches to their problems, this resource offers a radical rethink, a necessary step to achieving a more effective method of treatment. The unorthodox spirit of this material places this book at the center of the revolution taking place in the back pain area.- Gordon Waddell is the world authority on the topic of the back pain revolution.- The content addresses huge problems of concern to many disciplines and governments.- The unbiased, open-minded view looks at the issues and the evidence and invites the readers to consider, debate, and agree on the best course of action.- Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the problem offers both interventionist and conservative approaches to treatment, psychosocial issues, economic factors, patient education, and prevention.- New chapter on Occupational Health Guidelines involving new co-author- Chapters on Social Interactions and A New Clinical Model both completely rewritten- Chapters on Clinical Guidelines and Information and Advice for Patients both completely rewritten with new co-authors- Major new research findings incorporated throughout- The 'message', the size of the book, the overall style, and the target audience are be unchanged from the successful first edition.- The simple style and readability of the first edition has been carefully maintained.
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Additional contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: The problem
- Chapter 2: Diagnostic triage
- Chapter 3: Pain and disability
- Chapter 4: Back pain through history
- Chapter 5: The epidemiology of back pain
- Chapter 6: Risk factors for back pain
- Chapter 7: The clinical course of back pain
- Chapter 8: Physical impairment
- Chapter 9: The physical basis of back pain
- Chapter 10: Illness behavior
- Chapter 11: Emotions
- Chapter 12: Beliefs about back pain
- Chapter 13: Social interactions
- Chapter 14: The biopsychosocial model
- Chapter 15: Clinical guidelines
- Chapter 16: Information and advice for patients
- Chapter 17: Occupational health guidelines
- Chapter 18: Rehabilitation
- Chapter 19: UK health care for back pain
- Chapter 20: US health care for back pain
- Chapter 21: Future health care for back pain
- Chapter 22: Epilogue
- Index