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Rapidly Reversible Low Back Pain
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 615
EAN: 9780979038709
ISBN: 0979038707
Label: Self Care First, LLC
Manufacturer: Self Care First, LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 252
Publication Date: December 04, 2006
Publisher: Self Care First, LLC
Studio: Self Care First, LLC
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Editorial Review:
Unknown to most are the many studies reporting that most low back pain is a rapidly reversible condition; that is, it can be eliminated, often quickly, by the patients themselves. This large subgroup can now be identified early on, providing opportunity for great cost savings and a goldmine of research discoveries about the causes of, and solutions to, low back pain. Dr. Donelson is a veteran spine specialist, researcher and educator who brings badly needed common sense and evidence to this complex problem of low back pain. In this hard-to-put-down account, he accurately exposes flaws in the low back pain scientific process and then offers simple, logical remedies. His insightful review of this valuable, yet ironically overlooked, clinical research reveals both clinical and economic solutions from implementing patient-specific treatments, rather than the "one-size-fits-all" guideline recommendations. This refreshing approach offers clinicians clinical methods to objectively determine non-pharmacologic ways for patients to gain control of their own low back pain and to recover more quickly and simply. Such objective decision-making offers new insights into how to avoid the need for medication, expensive imaging, or specialist referral, including low back surgery. And for the first time, psychosocial factors and manual therapies are placed in their proper perspective. This is a valuable read for any stakeholder seeking to improve the management of low back pain and to dramatically reduce its annual U.S. cost of $50 billion or more. Employers, payers, and disease management groups alike will benefit from these reliable means of determining the few necessary and many avoidable costs of managing low back pain.
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Rating: - For the LOVE OF GOD, why is this book and assessment not more popular?
This is a very precise overview of the McKenzie Method that actually would help cut down the cost of healthcare if there were 2 aspects in place:
1 - Practitioners who knew the method and how to apply treatment principles properly as a result of a precise assessment.
2 - General Practitioners who would recognize a musculoskeletal injury that would benefit from the McKenzie Method.
I run an online Physical Therapy clinic at [...] and this is the ONLY method that ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant Book
This was a brilliant book. Although I have read the McKenzie Texts cover to cover, it is only through the information in this book that I now truly understand the research and guideline dilemmas that exist in LBP management. In turn, I understand why it is taking so long for MDT to be more widely accepted, and how approaches lacking any significant evidence have been able to flourish, in particular, related to the field practice of manual therapy and alternative treatment approaches, never mind the pervasiveness ... Read More
Rating: - Everything you need to know about low back pain
This is a book that should be read by everyone involved in low back pain care. Dr. Donelson uses great analogies to question past research methodologies and has compiled all the evidence that supports Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) in an easy to read format. Insurance companies and employers involved in paying into the $90 billion a year low back dilemma should be particularly aware of the lack of evidence for very expensive and often ineffective diagnostic testing and treatments. Donelson's analogy of ... Read More
Rating: - A MUST read!
Dr. Donelson's book is a MUST read for physicians, therapists, nurses, chiropractors - any professional who is interested in helping their patients with their lower back pain (LBP). Additionally, this book is a MUST read for patients like myself who was searching, searching and searching for cutting-edge information on LBP. For four months I suffered with extreme over-the-edge pain from a nerve impingement caused by an L5-S1 bulging disc. I was prescribed medication and physical therapy with no relief. I then ... Read More
Rating: - shedding light on non specific low back pain
I've spent more than twenty years in a profession that is so misunderstood not only by its own (PTs) but by all other medical professionals, insurance companies and through them - the public......
Knowing how to systematically evaluate and treat non specific low back pain, educating patients and involving them in the process of helping them to help themselves, understanding pain patterns and knowing when conservative care is sufficient and when it has been exhausted, all this and more are introduced in Dr ... Read More
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