Full Description
How to Treat Low Back Pain: A Guide for Treating Causes of Low Back Pain for Physicians and APPs focuses on current technology and cutting-edge treatment options, all validated by data. Each chapter presents a thorough review of patient selection, procedure technique, and potential adverse complications for each recommended treatment. Written by experts in the field for practitioners and clinicians treating low back pain, and with anatomic artwork and illustrations throughout, the book covers all aspects of lower back pain, the leading cause of disability in developed countries, with the number of people affected worldwide increasing annually.
In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in health care costs to treat low back pain, and most of these treatments simply provide symptomatic relief with few strategies that actually contribute to correcting the underlying cause.
Contents
Section 1. Appropriate Diagnosis
1. History/Physical
2. Imaging for low back pain
3. Other Diagnostic Testing
Section 2. Conservative treatments
4. Physical Therapy and Exercise
5. Chiropractic Treatment
6. Other Conservative Treatment
Section 3. Interventional Treatments
7. Injections for Lumbar pain syndromes
8. Ablation for Low back pain (Medial Branch/BVN)
9. Regenerative/Restorative (Biologic) Medicine for Low back pain (Supplemental Disc Matrix/Stem Cell/PRP)
Section 4. Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures
10. Percutaneous Interlaminar Lumbar Decompression (PILD)
11. Interspinous Implants (Spacers/Fusions)
12. Vertebral Augmentation
Section 5. Neurostimulation for Low back pain
13. Dorsal Column Stimulation
14. DRG Stimulation
15. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation/Multifidus Stimulation
Section 6. Intrathecal Therapies for low back pain
16. Long term opioid therapy
17. Non-opioid therapy
Section 7. FAQ's and Further Reading
