Back pain

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Back Pain: The Facts provides the reader with an in-depth understanding of why chronic back pain develops and what makes it persist. Practical help is given to promote self-management with advice on stretching, exercise, relaxation, and managing thoughts and feelings associated with long term pain.

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Title Statements

Full title :Back pain / John Lee ; Suzanne Brook, H. Clare Daniel.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):[distributor] Oxford University Press Distribution Services, Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:144 pages : : color line drawings, halftones, 2- and ; : 20 x 13 x 1 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199561070, 0199561079
oclc:ocn851822386
Dewey Decimal:617.564

SECTION 1 -- UNDERSTANDING BACK PAIN -- 1. How is the back constructed? -- 2. What is back pain? -- 3. Scans, x-rays and that word 'degenerating' -- 4. How did the pain get to take over my life? -- SECTION 2 -- MEDICAL TREATMENTS -- 5. What different types of professionals could help? -- 6. Can my back pain be cured by injections or surgery? -- 7. Can I take medications for my pain? -- SECTION 3 -- SELF TREATMENTS -- 8. Thoughts and feelings -- 9. Communication -- 10. Relaxation -- 11. What is the role of exercise and movement? -- 12. How much activity can I do? -- 13. Specific stretches and exercises -- SECTION 4 -- BRINGING THINGS TOGETHER: REAL PATIENTS' TALES -- 14. Coping with a new pain: what can I expect from treatments? -- 15. Making sense of scan results and finding a cure -- 16. Home life is difficult -- 17. Nights are the worst time -- 18. My pain has got a whole lot worse -- Internet resources.