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Description of  Low Back Pain

This book includes two sections. Section one is about basic science, epidemiology, risk factors and evaluation, section two is about clinical science especially different approach in exercise therapy. This book will provide helpful information and guidance for all those practitioners involved with managing people with back pain-physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors and doctors of orthopedics, rheumatology, rehabilitation and manual medicine. Likewise for students of movement and those who are involved in re-educating movement-exercise physiologists, Pilates and yoga teachers etc. Contents Preface Section 1 Basic Science and Evaluation 1 Epidemiology 2 The Treatment of Low Back Pain and Scientific Evidence 3 Estimation of Prognosis in Non Specific Low Back Pain from Biopsychosocial Perspectives 4 Occupational and Environmental Risk Factors for Development of Low Back Pain in Hospital Nursing Personnel 5 Low Back Pain in Female Caregivers in Nursing Homes 6 The Use of Event-Related Potentials in Chronic Back Pain Patients 7 Muscular Performance Assessment of Trunk Extensors: A Critical Appraisal of the Literature Section 2 Treatment Approach 8 Physiotherapy Treatment on Chronic Non Specific Low Back Pain 9 Conservative Management of Low Back Pain 10 Therapeutic Exercises in the Management of Non-Specific Low Back Pain 11 Exercises in Low Back Pain 12 Stabilization Exercise for the Management of Low Back Pain 13 Conservative Management for Patients with Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction 14 Yoga as a Treatment for Low Back Pain: A Review of the Literature