Effective Management of Musculoskeletal Injury: A Clinical Ergonomics Approach to Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation [Paperback]

Andrew Wilson ND DO MNZRO (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0443063532 | ISBN-13: 978-0443063534 | Edition: 1

This practical guide is designed to help clinicians understand the workplace and lifestyle factors that contribute to musculoskeletal injuries. It examines ergonomic causes as well as personal and psychosocial factors, in addition to discussing cumulative and chronic types of injury. Content demonstrates how the pathophysiological processes underlying an injury are key to effectively managing patients. Holistic, research-based management models incorporate a range of therapeutic approaches, including manual therapy, exercise, and ergonomic and psychosocial interventions, to treat the whole patient rather than the presenting symptoms. Extensive sections on low back pain and neck, shoulder, and upper limb pain evaluate the specific processes involved and the most effective methods of treatment.

Editorial Reviews

Review

""This volume sets out to provide an overview of the clinical and ergonomic management of work-related muscolo-skeletal ill health. The format and text make it easily read and digested. The text is widely referenced and likely to encourage readers to extend their knowledge base further. It is a soft-back publication, on good quality paper, with the text literally illustrated with line drawings, charts and photographs."" J M Hoenich, Physiotherapy, April 2002

About the Author

Andrew Wilson is a registered osteopath and qualified ergonomist. He works in private practice in New Zealand and also teaches to various professional groups concerned with the management of musculoskeletal problems. He graduated from the British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy in 1981. Since then hehas been in private practice as an osteopath in Tauranga New Zealand, where he is clinical director of a busy osteopathic clinic. He is a past president of the New Zealand Register of Osteopaths.

Wilson started an ergonomic consultancy in 1992 completing over 500
workplace assessments. Since then he developed his own workplace assessment system which he teaches to other practitioners. His particular interests lie in the rehabilitation of overuse injuries and related furniture design. . He has developed techniques specifically designed to address problems related to poor movement or posture. This book is based on his assessment system and related management techniques.

He is also involved in teaching on the new masters course in osteopathy which was recently started up in Auckland, New Zealand.

He lectures and writes about posture and ergonomics. His published
books are 'Are You Sitting Comfortably?' (Optima) and 'The Complete
Guide to Good Posture at Work' (Random House).

Product Details

• Paperback: 275 pages
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 1 edition (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0443063532
• ISBN-13: 978-0443063534
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,615,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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