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• Title:The biomechanics of back pain / Michael A. Adams [and others] ; with a contribution by Brian J.C. Freeman.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Adams, Michael A. (Michael Anthony), 1953-
  
• Published/Created:Edinburgh ; Toronto : Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WE720 .B546 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Backache.
  Back--Mechanical properties.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:vii, 316 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Previous ed.: 2002.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780443100680 (pbk.)
  0443100683
  
• Contents:1. Introduction
  2. lumbar vertebral column and sacrum
  3. Muscles and fascia of the lumbar spine
  4. Nerves and blood supply to the lumbar spine
  5. Low back pain
  6. Epidemiology of low back trouble
  7. Biology of spinal tissues
  8. Growth and ageing of the lumbar spine
  9. Forces acting on the lumbar spine
  10. Mechanical function of the lumbosacral spine
  11. Mechanical damage to the lumbar spine
  12. Functional pathology
  13. Spinal degeneration
  14. Preventing back pain
  15. Conservative management of back pain
  16. Biomechanics of spinal surgery
  17. Surgery for disc prolapse, spinal stenosis and back pain / Brian J. C. Freeman
  18. Medico-legal considerations
  19. Summary : spinal ageing, degeneration and pain.