Research Catalog

Title

Neck and back pain : the scientific evidence of causes, diagnosis, and treatment / editors, Alf L. Nachemson, Egon Johnson.

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wikins, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Johnson, Egon.
• Nachemson, Alf L.

Description

xv, 495 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Subjects

• Back Pain > therapy
• Neck pain
• Neck Pain > therapy
• Exercise therapy
• Backache
• Neck Pain > diagnosis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Alf Nachemson -- Preface / Egon Jonsson -- 1. Introduction / Alf Nachemson -- 2. A Review of Social Influences on Neck and Back Pain and Disability / Gordon Waddell and Hazel Waddell -- 3. Psychological Risk Factors for Neck and Back Pain / Steven J. Linton -- 4. Influences of Individual Factors and Smoking on Neck and Low Back Pain / Alf Nachemson and Eva Vingard -- 5. Work-Related Influences on Neck and Low Back Pain / Eva Vingard and Alf Nachemson -- 6. Preventive Interventions for Back and Neck Pain / Steven J. Linton and Maurits W. van Tulder -- 7. Neurophysiology of Back Pain: Current Knowledge / Carl-Axel Carlsson and Alf Nachemson -- 8. Epidemiology of Neck and Low Back Pain / Alf Nachemson, Gordon Waddell and Anders I. Norlund -- 9. Assessment of Patients with Neck and Back Pain: A Best-Evidence Synthesis / Alf Nachemson and Eva Vingard -- 10. Introduction to Treatment of Neck and Back Pain / Alf Nachemson --
• 11. Conservative Treatment of Acute and Subacute Low Back Pain / Maurits W. van Tulder and Gordon Waddell -- 12. Conservative Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain / Maurits W. van Tulder, Marielle Goossens and Gordon Waddell / [et al.] -- 13. Surgical Treatment of Lumbar Disc Prolapse and Degenerative Lumber Disc Disease / Gordon Waddell, J. N. Alastair Gibson and Inga Grant -- 14. Acute and Subacute Neck Pain: Nonsurgical Treatment / Karin Harms-Ringdahl and Alf Nachemson -- 15. Nonsurgical Treatment of Chronic Neck Pain / Maurits W. van Tulder, Marielle Goossens and Jan Hoving -- 16. Surgical Treatment of Neck Pain / Carl-Axel Carlsson and Alf Nachemson -- 17. Utility of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychological Treatments / Steven J. Linton -- 18. Treatment of Neck and Low Back Pain in Primary Care / Margareta Soderstrom and Lars Englund -- 19. Cost-Effectiveness of Treatment of Neck and Low Back Pain / Marielle Goossens and Silvia Evers --
• 20. Cost of Back Pain in Some OECD Countries / Anders I. Norlund and Gordon Waddell -- 21. Review of Social Security Systems / Gordon Waddell and Anders I. Norlund.

ISBN

078172760X

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries