Back Pain RehabilitationBrian D'Orazio Unlike other texts on back pain, this book focuses on issues directly related to patient rehabilitation. Each section reviews the current literature to ensure the reliability of information, and balances that information with usable clinical strategies. The book is divided in to three main sections, with leading therapists and well-known clinicians sharing their experience on such topics as chronic pain, symptom magnification, muscle fatigue, exercise and truck dynamometers. |
Contents
REHABILITATION | 1 |
Exercise Prescription for Low Back Pain | 32 |
Rehabilitation after Back Surgery | 72 |
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activity assessment back extensors back muscles bending chronic LBP chronic pain chronic pain patients client clinical clinician components decrease developed diagnosis disability disc discectomy dynamic dynamometer dysfunction effective endurance erector spinae exercise prescription exercise program factors fatigue Figure flexed flexion flexion and extension Functional Capacity Evaluation fusion healing important increase indicated injury involved isokinetic isometric Isostation joint lb-ft LBP patients lifting lordosis low back pain lumbar spine manual manual therapy McGill Pain Questionnaire McKenzie measures mechanical median frequency ment mobility movement muscle strength myofascial release nociceptive normal pain behaviors paraspinal patients with chronic patients with LBP patterns performed physical therapist physical therapy position postoperative posture problem procedures psychological range of motion reported response rotation specific spinal Spinal Stenosis stretch surgery symptom magnification syndrome techniques tension therapist tients tion torque treat trunk muscles velocity weight zygapophyseal joint