Macnab's Backache has been designed to present a working classification of the common causes of low back pain and to act as a guide to the examination and management of a few commonly seen syndromes.

Contents

1. Musculoskeletal Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, and Biomechanics of the Lumbar Spine
2. Classification of Low Back Pain and Alerts for Different Age Groups
3. Spondylogenic Back Pain: Osseous and Intervertebral Lesions
4. Spondylogenic Backache: Soft Tissue Lesions and Pain Mechanisms
5. Epidemiology and Natural History of Spondylogenic Backache
6. Spondylolydid and Spondylolisthesis
7. Inflammatory Spondyloarthropathies and Lesions of the Sacroiliac Joints
8. The History
9. Examination of the Back
10. Disc Degeneration Without Root Irritation: Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain
11. Disc Degeneration with Root Irritation: Disc Ruptures
12. Disc Degeneration with Root Irritation: Spinal Canal Stenosis
13. The Investigation
14. Differential Diagnosis of Low Back Pain
15. Injections
16. Pain
17. Complications and Failures of Spinal Surgery

Index

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