Back Pain How to Relieve Low Back Pain and Sciatica

by Ardman, Carol; Fishman, Loren

• ISBN13: 9780393319613
• ISBN10: 039331961X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Dr. Loren Fishman, a distinguished clinician and a trailblazer in the treatment of sciatica, believes there's only one road to relief: patients must become partners with their doctors in naming the cause of their pain and in making treatment decisions. Based on the latest research and on Dr. Fishman's fifteen years of experience in treating patients successfully, Back Pain is filled with pain-saving advice and instructional facts: so many adults suffer bouts of back pain that many doctors consider them normal occurrences; like a cold or flu more than four days of bed rest can make a back ache worse; patients who choose chiropractors visit them twice as often as those who choose medical doctors more than 25 percent of people who go to orthopedic surgeons have referred themselves; the initial treatment any doctor is likely to prescribe is aspirin; sciatica is one of the three major causes of back pain.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Behind Your Backache	p. 13
The Spine	p. 19
Diagnosis: The Basis of Cure	p. 42
Professional Help: When and Whom	p. 65
Pain: Its Forms and Names	p. 83
Musculoskeletal Pain: Where It Hurts and Why	p. 101
Numbness: Not Feeling What Is There	p. 114
Paresthesias: Feeling What Isn't There	p. 129
Weakness: Losing What Was There	p. 136
Major Causes of Chronic Low Back Pain	p. 149
Twenty-Four Tricks to Ease Your Aching Back	p. 193
Medical Intervention	p. 213
Prevention Lessons: Keeping Backache at Bay	p. 240
Sex and Pregnancy	p. 254
Glossary	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 275
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.