The foremost authorities from chiropractics, orthopaedics and physical therapy present a practical overview of spinal rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation of the Spine presents the most current and significant spinal rehab information, showing how to apply simple and inexpensive rehabilitation in the office.
The updated Second Edition includes clinical/regional protocols and chapters on diagnostic triage, acute care, functional assessment, recovery care, outcomes, and biopsychosocial aspects.
A bonus DVD offers demonstrations of key therapies and procedures.
Contents
Overview
- Active care
- The role of muscles, joints, and the nervous system in painful conditions of the spine
- Quality assurance
- Putting the biopsychosocial model into practice
Basic Science
- Lumbar spine stability: mechanism of injury and restabilization
- The sources of back pain
Assessment
- Diagnostic triage in patients with spinal pain
- Outcome assessment
- Assessment of psychosocial risk factors of chronicity
- Evaluation of muscular imbalance
- Quantification of physical performance ability
- Physical performance tests: an expanded model of assessment and outcome
- Emplyment screening and functional capacity evaluation to determine safe return to work
Acute Care Management (First 4 Weeks)
- Active self-care: functional reactivation for spine pain patients
- McKenzie spinal rehabilitation methods
- Brugger methods for postural correction
- Rehabilitation of breathing pattern disorders
- Soft tissue manipulation
- Manual resistance techniques
- Neuromobilization techniques—evaluation and treatment of adverse neurodynamic tension
- Manipulation techniques for key joints
Recovery Care Management (After 4 Weeks)
- Sensory motor stimulation
- Facilitation of agonist-antagomist co-activation by reflex stimulation methods
- Yoga-based training for spinal stability
- Spinal segmental stabilization training
- Functional stability training
- Global muscle stabilization training—isotonic protocols
- Weight training for back stability
- Advanced stabilization training for performance enhancement
- Nutritional considerations for inflammation and pain
- A cognitive behavioral therapy program forspinal pain
Practical Applications by Region
- An integrated approach to regional disorders
- Managing common syndromes and finding the key link
- Integrated approach to the lumbar spine
- Integrated approach to the cervical spine
Implementing the Functional Paradign
- The patient and the doctor
- The role and safety of activity in the elderly
- Role of non-operative spinal specialist in manageing the spine patient
- From guidelines to practice: what is the practitioner's role?
Index
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