Back Pain: Diagnosis & Management beyind Guidelines

This second edition is a significant upgrade in quality and content from the first edition (2024)First edition:In this book, Mark Laslett summarizes diagnosis & treatment of lumbosacral pain syndromes, based on over 50 years of continuous clinical practice as a self-employed physiotherapist & 30 years of active research and teaching of courses internationally. Mark has actively promoted the retirement of the concept of "non-specific" low back pain for over 20 years, based on its failure to make any impact of back pain's increasing prevalence & effect on patients’ life & work. He presents examples of the main subgroups of the back pain spectrum:• Mechanical Discogenic Pain• Non-Mechanical Discogenic & vertebrogenic Pain• The Radicular Syndromes• Lumbar Facetogenic Pain• Sacroiliac Joint Pain• Stress Fractures of the Posterior Column• Spinal StenosisMark identifies the known & identifiable subgroups within the back pain spectrum, demonstrating how expert physiotherapy and medical clinicians diagnose these conditions. Also, the evidence base for the treatment of these subgroups is briefly described. A short bibliography is provided.Follow him on X (Twitter) @marklaslett_NZ and access his website for book details and a blog.https://www.drmarklaslett.com/ Read more