Medical Management of Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain: Pain Research and Clinical Management Series, Volume 13, 1e [Hardcover]

Nikolai Bogduk BSc(Med) MB BS MD PhD DSc DipAnat DipPainMed FAFRM FAFMM FFPM(ANZCA) (Editor), Brian McGuirk MB BS DPH FAFOM FAFMM (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0444508457 | ISBN-13: 978-0444508454 | Publication Date: August 14, 2002 | Edition: 1

The book summarizes the best available evidence of the management of acute and chronic low back pain. The evidence is presented in a clinically relevant order, to guide the practitioner through understanding the problem, taking a history, performing an examination, ordering investigations, and eventually prescribing treatment. At times the text is provocative and controversial with its thought-stimulating approach. The style reflects the authors' personae, is user friendly, and promotes communication.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"a very useful reference to the current evidence base of spinal pain assessment and treatment."

THE JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC MEDICINE, 2004

About the Author

I commenced research into spinal pain, in 1972, when essentially nothing was known about the problem. There being no established groups or departments working on this problem, I forged my own career, using borrowed resources. I commenced in a Department of Anatomy, where I pursued the innervation of the vertebral column as a fundamental element in understanding the sources and mechanisms of spinal pain. Professor Jim Lance fostered this interest, and accommodated my PhD studies. In his department I continued my anatomy studies but was able also to commence clinical applications. I developed and tested new diagnostic and surgical procedures for back pain and for neck pain. While in Professor Lance's Department, I participated in laboratory studies of the mechanisms of migraine. At the University of Queensland I continued to develop and apply the diagnostic and surgical techniques that I started at the University of NSW, serving as an honorary medical officer at the Pain Clinic of Princess Alexandra Hospital. Meanwhile I supervised science and medicine postgraduate students who undertook basic science studies into the biomechanics of the back and neck. At the University of Newcastle, I had established a reputation sufficient to attract a grant from the Motor Accidents Authority of NSW to investigate the cause and treatment of neck pain after whiplash. The grant supported three PhD students over a six year period. They performed studies that validated the diagnostic procedures and which tested the surgical procedures in a placebo-controlled double-blind randomized trial. Having established an international standing in the development and testing of treatments for spinal pain, I participated in the design and analysis of controlled trials conducted elsewhere in Australia and in the USA. These tested the efficacy of: lumbar radiofrequency neurotomy for back pain, intradiscal electrothermal anuloplasty for back pain, prolotherapy for back pain, exercises for neck pain. Between 1997 and 2002 I conducted the National Musculoskeletal Medicine Initiative which developed and tested evidence-based practice guidelines for the management of back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, and pain in the foot, wrist, and elbow. My work has been awarded the Volvo Award for Back Pain Research, the Research Prize of the Cervical Spine Research Society, the Award for Outstanding Research of the North American Spine Society, and three times the Research Prize of the Spine Society of Australia. My students have been awarded research prizes by the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Australian Rheumatology Association, and the Australian New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. I have never had a funded department to which to attract investigators and academics. I have relied on scholarships for students, and the goodwill of private practitioners who wished to contribute to clinical research. Of late, I have been supervising Neurosurgery residents undertaking studies of the outcomes of treatment for Radicular pain and back pain.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Elsevier; 1 edition (August 14, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0444508457
• ISBN-13: 978-0444508454
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,536,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource if you have chronic or acute back pain., November 22, 2009

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This review is from: Medical Management of Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain: Pain Research and Clinical Management Series, Volume 13, 1e (Hardcover)

I have a number of spinal conditions and although I have educated myself about my various conditions, nothing has been as helpful and comprehensive as this book. It is expensive (I wish I had found it used or that it came in paperback), but If you want to know more about the medical end of your or a loved one's chronic or acute back pain this is a great resource. It also helps you communicate better with your doctors and is a useful tool to refute some docs that may not understand too much about spinal pain and will not refer you to a pain management specialist. It is also well written: easy for a lay person to understand, but detailed enough so that a doc can use it as a reference. Again, good resource to have if you have back pain and want to learn more.