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<p>This text will become an essential manual for all back care practitioners involved in back schools or advising and treating patients with back and neck problems.</p> <h3>Dana J. Lawrence</h3> <p>This book provides a general overview of the anatomy of the lower back, along with discussions of posture, lifting, exercise, and common syndromes that affect the lower back. The approach is from the perspective of a physical therapist, and the book is written at a rather fundamental level. The purpose is to help the therapist explain to the patient, by means of illustrations, how the spine functions, what may have gone wrong in the patient's particular case, and how the patient can play a role in recovery and prevention of occurrence. The book therefore provides a rationale to aid the therapist in explaining to the patient the interventions to be used in his or her specific case. This is directed primarily at physical therapists, but it may also be of interest to chiropractors and osteopaths. It is essentially for practicing therapists, not for students. There are seven chapters in this text, covering functional anatomy, syndromes, posture, lifting, exercises, children and teenagers, an

Author

Jean Oliver; drawings by Ann Blythe; anatomical illustrations by Jean Oliver

Publisher

Oxford ; Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780750601917

Subjects

Medical, Medicine