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Do You Really Need Back Surgery? : A Surgeon's Guide to Neck and Back Pain and How to Choose Your Treatment.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (461 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199986507
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Do You Really Need Back Surgery?DDC classification:
  • 617.4/71044
LOC classification:
  • RD768 .F555 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface-revision to come -- Disclaimer -- How to Use This Book: Two Dozen Visits to Your Doctor -- Part I: Spine and Nerve Health -- 1. Acute, Chronic, and Recurring: A Quick Tour of Neck and Back Pain -- 2. The Nature of Pain and How It Is Treated -- 3. Keeping the Spine Healthy: Ergonomics for Life -- 4. Renewal Without Surgery: Schools of Therapy -- 5. Anatomy 101: From Bones, Disks, and Joints to Mind, Muscles, and Nerves -- 6. Disks, Spurs, Stenosis, Slippage, and Osteoporosis -- 7. Spinal Symptoms: Where Does That Pain Come From? -- 8. Accidents of the Embryo: Spina Bifida and Variations at Birth -- 9. Patterns of Nerve Pinches: From Shoulder to Toe -- 10. Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Tests: X-rays, Electrons, and Magnetic Spin -- 11. Regeneration and Repair in the Nerves and Spinal Cord -- Part II: Spine and Nerve Surgery -- 12. Without an Incision: Percutaneous Procedures for Diagnosis and Treatment -- 13. Surgery-Before, During, and After: Common Elements You Should Know About -- 14. Surgery to Take the Pressure off the Neural Tissues of the Spine -- 15. Surgery Inside the Spinal Dural Lining -- 16. Spine Carpentry: History and Principles of Rebuilding the Broken Spine -- 17. Fixing the Cervical Spine: Surgical Approaches to the Neck -- 18. Thoracic Spine Operations: Surgical Approaches to Mid-Back and Upper-Back Problems -- 19. Lumbar Implants and Fusion: Major Surgeries for the Low Back -- 20. Surgery to Release Nerve Entrapments in the Shoulder, Arm, Pelvis, and Leg -- 21. Genes, Designer Proteins, and Biomaterials: The Role of Biotechnology in Spine and Nerve Surgery -- 22. Risks, Outcomes, and Choices -- 23. Recovery After Surgery -- 24. Health Insurance and the Cost of Surgery -- Epilogue: Knowledge and Resilience -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N.
O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This new edition of Do You Really Need Back Surgery? provides a wide range of information for back and neck pain sufferers--ranging from Pilates to Pedicle Screws. It is written by a world famous neurosurgical spine expert, who is also a widely published author, and contains answers to questions that your doctors often don't have time to discuss. It is an essential manual for every neck or back pain sufferer.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface-revision to come -- Disclaimer -- How to Use This Book: Two Dozen Visits to Your Doctor -- Part I: Spine and Nerve Health -- 1. Acute, Chronic, and Recurring: A Quick Tour of Neck and Back Pain -- 2. The Nature of Pain and How It Is Treated -- 3. Keeping the Spine Healthy: Ergonomics for Life -- 4. Renewal Without Surgery: Schools of Therapy -- 5. Anatomy 101: From Bones, Disks, and Joints to Mind, Muscles, and Nerves -- 6. Disks, Spurs, Stenosis, Slippage, and Osteoporosis -- 7. Spinal Symptoms: Where Does That Pain Come From? -- 8. Accidents of the Embryo: Spina Bifida and Variations at Birth -- 9. Patterns of Nerve Pinches: From Shoulder to Toe -- 10. Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Tests: X-rays, Electrons, and Magnetic Spin -- 11. Regeneration and Repair in the Nerves and Spinal Cord -- Part II: Spine and Nerve Surgery -- 12. Without an Incision: Percutaneous Procedures for Diagnosis and Treatment -- 13. Surgery-Before, During, and After: Common Elements You Should Know About -- 14. Surgery to Take the Pressure off the Neural Tissues of the Spine -- 15. Surgery Inside the Spinal Dural Lining -- 16. Spine Carpentry: History and Principles of Rebuilding the Broken Spine -- 17. Fixing the Cervical Spine: Surgical Approaches to the Neck -- 18. Thoracic Spine Operations: Surgical Approaches to Mid-Back and Upper-Back Problems -- 19. Lumbar Implants and Fusion: Major Surgeries for the Low Back -- 20. Surgery to Release Nerve Entrapments in the Shoulder, Arm, Pelvis, and Leg -- 21. Genes, Designer Proteins, and Biomaterials: The Role of Biotechnology in Spine and Nerve Surgery -- 22. Risks, Outcomes, and Choices -- 23. Recovery After Surgery -- 24. Health Insurance and the Cost of Surgery -- Epilogue: Knowledge and Resilience -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N.

O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

This new edition of Do You Really Need Back Surgery? provides a wide range of information for back and neck pain sufferers--ranging from Pilates to Pedicle Screws. It is written by a world famous neurosurgical spine expert, who is also a widely published author, and contains answers to questions that your doctors often don't have time to discuss. It is an essential manual for every neck or back pain sufferer.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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