Smart Guide to Back and Nerve Pain

by Filler, Aaron

• ISBN13: 9781937636241
• ISBN10: 1937636240
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-10-01
• Publisher: Smart Guide Pubns Inc

Summary

One of the worlds' leading experts on spine and nerve pain spills the secrets on how to help yourself. Dr. Aaron Filler, MD, PhD, FRCS (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons) has spent years training spinal neurosurgeons at UCLA and Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He has invented and developed new types of pain medicine. He has a PhD from Harvard University based on research on spinal function and origins. He runs and rollerblades to beat his own occasional back pains.As every doctor is well aware - knowledge is power. The more you know about your own health the better the chances you'll learn what is causing your pain and the better the chances that you'll be an effective your partner with your doctor in choosing the right treatments. The Smart Guide to Back and Nerve Pain covers every aspect from mild aches to major surgery. How can you choose among yoga, chiropractic, Pilates or a dozen other kinds of therapy your friends and co-workers are raving about? What if the doctor says you need major surgery and need to have an artificial disk implanted urgently to avoid paralysis - is he telling the truth? These are tough questions but Dr. Filler's book steps you through the basics of anatomy, symptoms, spine disorders, nerve disorders, and the wide world of therapies. You'll be amazed to learn that with just a basic thread of structured information, you can make far better use of the other resources available to you. You'll approach your next health care visit far more confident that you are an empowered patient capable of getting the excellent, effective and appropriate treatment you need.