Product Description

The Top 50 Spinal Pain Syndrones will be an ideal text to accompany the Clinical Anatomy and Management of Back Pain series. This practical and informative new book provides the reader with 50 cases of patients with spinal pain syndromes ranging from the straighforwad to the challenging.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #847074 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-31
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Synopsis
This unique and indispensable guide to challenging spinal pain cases brings together fifty individual studies ranging from the common and straightforward to the more complex. In an exceptionally clear layout each case is thoroughly presented, with details of patient profile, etiology, diagnosis and management, key points and suggestions for further reading. Questions of anatomy are clarified and the cases are comprehensively illustrated with radiographs and scans to enable the reader to see the precise nature of the pathology causing the patient's spinal pain syndrome. Dr Giles' "Problem Solving Approach" keeps the emphasis on the practical and corrects some common myths about spinal pain treatment. Taken together these cases make up a book which students, practitioners and everyone interested in the spine will want to own.

From the Publisher
Each case covers: patient profile, presenting complaint, aetiology, previous surgery, examination, imaging results, diagnosis and management.The information is placed on the left hand side of the book and on the right hand page, there are the illustrations, anatomy, pathology and imaging, making the book very user friendly and informative. Each case comprises two pages with complex cases requiring up to 4 pages.

About the Author
MSc PhD DC, Director, Back Pain Research Unit and Honorary Clinical Scientist, Townsville General Hospital, Queensland, Australia ,