Sarvdeep Singh Dhatt - Böcker

This volume aims to be an evidence-based, one-stop, comprehensive, lucid scientific document covering all the aspects and dimensions of low back pain. The incidence and prevalence of low back pain are magnanimous. They are one of the leading causes of loss of working hours in establishments and a significant cause of workers' compensation, directly impacting a country's economy. This book contains authoritative chapters covering all the aspects of low back pain, including recent advances, newer applications, epidemiology, anatomy, physiology, clinical examination, investigations, non-operative management, operative interventions, medico-legal aspects, recent advances, etc. The chapter authors are experts and well-recognized authorities and masters in their fields. The list of authors is very exhaustive and cumulative across the globe. This is to be a treatise fulfilling all the existing broad lacunae in approach, protocols, suspicion, clinical examination, diagnosis, and management of this entity. Chapters are written in easy-to-follow management plan algorithms, and keynotes for easy and ready reference describe recent advances in diagnostic modalities. Which also explains the treatment regimes in detail. The controversies are elucidated and concluded with firm and sound references from evidence-based literature. Every line will have a firm scientific standing and corroborative pictorial illustrations. The varied presentations of the disease in varied socio-economic strata and geographic regions, along with different principle-based approaches to the disease spectrum, shall be discussed at length. Different clinical settings and scenarios from pediatrics, adults, and geriatrics - all age groups will be included in the concerned chapters to keepup the interest with the topic amongst its readers and shall consist of a treatise on the historical perspectives of low back ache too. The editors aim to make this treatise on low back pain a one-stop reference textbook on the topic of "Low Back Ache" by medical students and trainees, fellows, chiropractors, medical teachers, orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, physiotherapists, etc. all alike dealing with low back ache.