Low Back Pain: Mechanism, Diagnosis and Treatment

Low Back Pain: Mechanism, Diagnosis and Treatment

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Here's your complete guide to managing low back pain. This Sixth Edition features eight years of completely updated research by Dr. Cox...all resulting in this comprehensive source for diagnosis and treatment. Extensive algorithms of decision making are featured representing the standard of care in distraction adjusting. New chapters include: / History, development and acceptance of distraction adjusting procedures / Complete treatment protocol with distraction adjusting for radicular and non-radicular low back pain patient / Research of distraction adjusting written by Ram Gudavalli, PhD, principal investigator of the combined research study "Biomechanics of Flexion Distraction Manipulation of the Lumbar Spine" between the National College of Chiropractic and Loyola University Stretch School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

1 Chiropractic and Distraction Adjustments Today 1
2 Biomechanics of the Lumbar Spine 17
3 Neurophysiology and Pathology of the Nerve Root and Dorsal Root Ganglion 131
4 Spinal Stenosis 169
5 The Sacroiliac Joint 209
6 Transitional Segment 237
7 Fibromyalgia 251
8 Biomechanics Research on Flexion-Distraction Procedure 261
9 Biomechanics, Adjustment Procedures, Ancillary Therapies, and Clinical Outcomes of Cox Distraction Technique 273
10 Diagnosis of the Low Back and Leg Pain Patient 377
11 Laboratory Evaluation 509
12 Care of the Intervertebral Disc Patient 527
13 Facet Syndrome 591
14 Spondylolisthesis 611
15 Rehabilitation of the Low Back Pain Patient 653
16 Psychological Perspectives in Treating Low Back Pain 679
Addendum A: Literature Update 689
Addendum B Biomechanics Research 707

Low Back Pain: Mechanism, Diagnosis and Treatment

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