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Degenerative Disc Disease plagues the millions of people that suffer from it. This books aims to provide the information sought out by those millions of people. Frederick Earlstein has written this medical education guide to provide an understanding of Disc Disease including medical treatments, alternative treatments and self-care, nutrition and spine health. Treatment, surgery, symptoms, exercises, causes, physical therapy, neck, back pain, and much more are all covered. The book is written in an easy to read and understandable style. In a straight forward, no nonsense fashion, Frederick Earlstein covers all aspects of Degenerative Disc Disease. The book is full of informative content and answers to your questions - including some you didn't know you had!

Written by an international group of recognized experts, this volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date reference on degenerative disc disease. Coverage begins with the epidemiology, physiology, and biomechanical effects of degenerative disc disease and proceeds to diagnosis, clinical presentation, and conservative and surgical treatment modalities. The book offers practical advice on when to operate and when to treat conservatively and provides complete information on alternatives to surgery and surgical options. Chapters describe the new total disc replacements that are currently used in Europe and undergoing clinical trials in the United States. Also included are discussions of economic and ethical considerations.

Cervical laminoplasty for the treatment of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament was developed and refined in Japan during the 1970s. Since that time, various cervical laminoplasty techniques have been further analyzed and modified, and have proven to be clinically successful. Until now cervical laminoplasty has been practiced primarily in Japan, and surgeons outside Japan had only limited access to the detailed English literature needed to make full use of the procedures. This book fills that gap in English information and provides a detailed, up-to-date guide to performing safe and effective cervical laminoplasty. Drawing on the latest knowledge from Japan, the book covers the history of cervical laminoplasty, surgical anatomy, basic procedures, modified procedures, possible complications, and perspectives on the future of expansive laminoplasty. This volume by leaders in the field is an excellent guide for all surgeons interested in laminoplasty.

This comprehensive text is the definitive academic pain medicine resource for medical students, residents and fellows. Acting as both an introduction and continued reference for various levels of training, this guide provides practitioners with up-to-date academic standards. In order to comprehensively meet the need for such a contemporary text—treatment options, types of pain management, and variables affecting specific conditions are thoroughly examined across 48 chapters. Categories of pain conditions include orofacial, neuropathic, visceral, neck, acute, muscle and myofascial, chronic urogenital and pelvic, acute, and regional. Written by renowned experts in the field, each chapter is supplemented with high-quality color figures, tables and images that provide the reader with a fully immersive educational experience. Academic Pain Medicine: A Practical Guide to Rotations, Fellowship, and Beyond is an unprecedented contribution to the literature that addresses the wide-spread requisite for a practical guide to pain medicine within the academic environment.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide disability benefits: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. SSDI provides disability benefits to people (under the full retirement age) who are no longer able to work because of a disabling medical condition. SSI provides income assistance for disabled, blind, and aged people who have limited income and resources regardless of their prior participation in the labor force. Both programs share a common disability determination process administered by SSA and state agencies as well as a common definition of disability for adults: "the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months." Disabled workers might receive either SSDI benefits or SSI payments, or both, depending on their recent work history and current income and assets. Disabled workers might also receive benefits from other public programs such as workers' compensation, which insures against work-related illness or injuries occurring on the job, but those other programs have their own definitions and eligibility criteria. Selected Health Conditions and Likelihood of Improvement with Treatment identifies and defines the professionally accepted, standard measurements of outcomes improvement for medical conditions. This report also identifies specific, long-lasting medical conditions for adults in the categories of mental health disorders, cancers, and musculoskeletal disorders. Specifically, these conditions are disabling for a length of time, but typically don't result in permanently disabling limitations; are responsive to treatment; and after a specific length of time of treatment, improve to the point at which the conditions are no longer disabling.

Fixing You: Back Pain 2nd edition significantly expands upon the top-selling first edition. Rick Olderman physical therapist, personal trainer, Pilates instructor, and certified Hanna Somatics practitioner presents a new pattern of problems creating back pain: side-bending problems. Side-bending problems involve an uneven pelvis and rib cage and Olderman shows how to easily detect and fix it. If you have pain on one side of your back or sciatic pain down one of your legs, it's likely you have a side-bending problem. Understanding why you have pain is central to fixing your pain. Fixing You: Back Pain 2nd edition offers you more tests to help you precisely understand the causes of your pain. To permanently fix your pain must change how you use your body. Fixing You: Back Pain 2nd edition teaches you how to sit, walk, bend over, and sleep better. These activities often harbor the most subtle yet egregious issues feeding your pain. Often there are issues operating in the background contributing to your pain. These problems set you up for failure and pain. Find out what these issues are by visiting the Fixing You books website and downloading a free copy of Chapter 3: The Basics. Videos and pictures of all tests and exercises have been re-shot and can be found on the Fixing You books website. You must enter the code found in the book to access the videos. Enjoy the process of discovering why you have pain!

In this volume, world authorities on spinal surgery from the fields of Neurosurgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Neuroscience present current data on the basic science and clinical management of the unstable spine. Unique to this book: a frank presentation of controversies in the field.

"You can improve your spinal stenosis! More than half of people over the age of 60 have lumbar spinal stenosis --yet most of us know very little about it, and even less about how to manage it. If your "stenosis diagnosis" has caused you all sorts of confusion and panic, take heart. No matter what course of treatment you are considering, Rehab Your Own Spinal Stenosis will give you the necessary understanding (in easy layman's terms), a wealth of information, and the basic steps that will help YOU improve the health of your spine. Ready to become your spine's number one advocate? Physical Therapist Terri Night has written a fun, easy-to-use how-to, packed with practical tools."--