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Smart Advice on the leading causes of back problems and the best ways to relieve the pain

Smart Ways to stretch, exercise, and strengthen the muscles in your back

Smart Tips on how today's leading medical techniques and therapies can make your back feel good again

An all-you-need-to-know introduction to understanding why your back hurts and how to make it feel good again
* Smart Insights into the causes of back pain and the many factors--including
Back Basics.

Back Pain, Specialists, and Tests.

What Can Go Wrong--and When.

Form, Movement, and Exercise.

Relieving the Pain.

Surgical Solutions.

Alternative Answers to Relief.

Available on the Market.

Index.

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Healing

Health

Fitness

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	21 avril 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470311929
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Smart Guide
to
Healing Back Pain
About Smart Guides
Welcome to Smart Guides. Each Smart Guide is created as a written conversation with a learned friend; a skilled and knowledge author guides you through the basics of the subject, selecting the most important points and skipping over anything that s not essential. Along the way, you ll also find smart inside tips and strategies that distinguish this from other books on the topic.
Within each chapter you ll find a number of recurring features to help you find your way through the information and put it to work for you. Here are the user-friendly elements you ll encounter and what they mean:

The Keys
Each chapter opens by highlighting in overview style the most important concepts in the pages that follow.
Smart Move
Here s where you will learn opinions and recommendations from experts and professionals in the field.
Street Smarts
This feature presents smart ways in which people have dealt with related issues and shares their secrets for success.
Smart Sources
Each of these sidebars points the way to more and authoritative information on the topic, from organizations, corporations, publications, web sites, and more.
Smart Definition
Terminology and key concepts essential to your mastering the subject matter are clearly explained in this feature.
F.Y.I.
Related facts, statistics, and quick points of interest are noted here.
What Matters, What Doesn t
Part of learning something new involves distinguishing the most relevant information from conventional wisdom or myth, This feature helps focus your attention on what, really matters.
The Bottom Line
The conclusion to each chapter, here is where the lessons learned in each section are summarized so you can revisit the most essential information of the text.
One of the main objectives of the Smart Guide to Healing Back Pain is not only to better inform you about the available treatments for back pain, but to educate you about the causes of the pain as well as the preventive measures that can be taken to avoid the discomfort of reinjury.

Smart Guide is a trademark of John Wiley Sons, Inc.
Copyright 1999 by Cader Company Inc. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley Sons, Inc.
Published simultaneously in Canada
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center; 222 Rosewood Drive; Danvers, MA 01923; (978) 750-8400; fax (978) 750-4744. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley Sons, Inc.; 605 Third Avenue; New York, NY 10158-0012; (212) 850-6011; fax (212) 850-6008; e-mail: PERMREQ @ WILEY.COM.
The information contained in this book is not intended to serve as a replacement for professional medical advice. Any use of the information in this book is at the reader s discretion. The author and the publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use or application of any information contained in this book. A health-care professional should be consulted regarding your specific situation.
Images on pages 10, 11, 13, and 15 are from MediClip, Human Anatomy 1, 2, 3; 1996; Lippincott Williams Wilkins; used with permission. The Revised Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire, on page 109, reprinted from the 1994 revised version of Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q and YOU); the PAR-Q and YOU is a copyrighted pre-exercise screen owned by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. The McKenzie Exercises, on pages 118-119, from Treat Your Own Back , by Robin McKenzie; used with permission of the McKenzie Institute and Spinal Publications New Zealand Ltd.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Bodger, Carole.
Smart guide to healing back pain / Carole Bodger.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-471-35649-2 (pbk.)
1. Backache. I. Title.
RD771.B217B63 1999
617.5 64-DC21 99-29977
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Introduction
1. Back Basics
Everybody s Enemy
Do You Fit the Profile of the Back Pain Sufferer?
Anatomy of the Back
The Spine
Processes, Facet Joints, and Disks
Ligaments and Muscles
Spinal Cord and Nerves
Back Pain in the Leg?
2. Back Pain, Specialists, and Tests
Common Causes of Pain: The Short Answer
Chronic or Acute?
When to See a Doctor and What Type of Doctor to See
The Unexpected Specialists
Neurosurgeons
Physiatrists
The Clinical Exam
The Diagnostic Dilemma
Do You Need to Get a Test?
Diagnostic Tests for Back Pain
Most Common Diagnostic Tests
Less Common Diagnostic Tests
3. What Can Go Wrong-and When
What Can Go Wrong
Strains and Sprains
Arachnoiditis
Facet Joint Problems
Fibromyalgia
Fractures and Breaks
Herniated and Bulging Disks
Inflammation
Muscle Spasm
Myofascial Pain Syndrome (MPS)
Osteoarthritis
Osteophytes
Osteoporosis
Pinched Nerves
Sacroiliac Joint Problems
Scoliosis
Spina Bifida
Spinal Stenosis
Spondylitis
Tumors
When We re Most Susceptible
When We re Under Stress
When We re Tired
With Seasonal Hazards
When We re Old...and Sedentary
During Pregnancy
Food for Thought...and Back Health
Get Milk!
4. Form, Movement and Exercise
Good Form
While You re Sitting
While You re Standing
While You re Lying Down
Good Moves
Bending
Lifting and Carrying
Turning
At the Office
Diversify the Day
On the Road
Work It Out: Exercise!
Prescreening for Exercise
Exercise to Prevent Back Pain
Basic Prevention
Exercise with Back Pain?
The Bed Rest Myth
Do You Need a Physical Therapist?
How to Choose a Physical Therapist
5. Relieving the Pain
How Pain Works
Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications
Taking Medication Safely
The Truth Behind Deep Heating Action : Liniments and Salves
Electrical Stimulation Therapies
Injection Therapies
The Pain Center Approach
No Quick Fix
6. Surgical Solutions
Do You Need Surgery?
Surgical Decisions
When to Consider Surgery
Pre-Op Homework
Defining Success
The Procedures
Disk Surgery
Laminectomy
Spinal Fusion
Recovery
7. Alternative Answers to Relief
What Is Alternative Medicine?
Bodywork
Chiropractic
Acupuncture
Therapeutic Massage
Reflexology and Zone Therapy
Structural Integration/Rolfing
The Mind-Body Connection
The Emotional View
Mind Control: Hypnosis and Biofeedback
Meditation, Faith, and Prayer
Yoga
Movement Therapies
Pilates, or The Method
The Alexander Technique
The Feldenkrais Method
Weighing the Alternatives
8. Available on the Market
The Classics
Cold
Heat
Braces and Corsets
Newer Arrivals
Supports, Cushions, and Rolls
Massagers
Inversion Devices
Magnets
Unlikely Back Aids
Office Aids
Herbals and Supplements
Shoes and Wearables
Exercise Videos
Good Nights
Mattresses
Pillows, Headrests, Wedges
Chairs
Internet Caveat

Index
Introduction
Back pain is a life-changer. It changes the way we move, the things we do, and the manner in which we do them. But it doesn t have to be a life-stopper by any means. Whether you suffer from a dull ache that seems to have had no beginning and is never going to end or periodically grapple with ferocious attacks of sudden anguish, you can take steps to relieve the torment and lessen its negative impact on your life. We hope this book will help.
We start with a look at who s most susceptible to becoming a back-pain sufferer and what can put a person at risk, and move on to a simplified anatomy lesson about the incredibly complex network of bone and tissue summed up in the four-letter word back. In chapters 2 and 3 we let you in on when you have the greatest likelihood of running into trouble and how to better your odds, as well as when you should see a doctor. The most commonly used tests for diagnosing the cause of pain, and some of the problems that might be detected are discussed next. Chapter 4 explores how the ways in which you move-or stay still-can play a significant role in back health, and suggests an array of preventive, back-strengthening exercises as well as exercises to help relieve pain that has already begun.
In the second half of this book we move on to treatment methods and options, from over-the-counter pills and unguents to high-tech surgical procedures. Chapter 5 reviews the many modes of relief that are available, including prescription and nonprescription drugs, electrical stimulation therapies, and pain-numbing injections. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the numerous surgical approaches to which you might turn when other methods fall short, and is followed by a chapter on popular alternative approaches to healing- such as chiropractic, acupuncture, and mind-body techniques-being used by millions today.
We conclude with a window-shopper s guide to the many products now on the market to help prevent and ease back pain, from body-contoured pillows to gadgets and gizmos that suspend you upside down, with a few words of caution on how to be a good consumer.
We wish we could promise you a cure to back pain, but if we did we wouldn t be telling the truth. In many cases, back pain will occur no matter how careful you are to prevent it, and it does have a likelihood of recurring once it s first appeared. The good news is that the great majority of it is preventable. By learning how to strengthen your back bones and muscles and increase your flexibility, by becoming aware of how to move and how not to and knowing what to do to help yourself when back pain does strike, you can lessen the frequency and severity of the pain.
CHAPTER 1