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Effective Management of Musculoskeletal Injury: A Clinical Ergonomics Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Rehab - Softcover

Wilson ND DO MNZRO, Andrew

 
9780443063534: Effective Management of Musculoskeletal Injury: A Clinical Ergonomics Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Rehab
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0443063532 ISBN 13: 9780443063534
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2001

Synopsis

In Effective Management of Musculoskeletal Injury the author presents a model for understanding musculoskeletal injuries. He describes the common types of musculoskeletal injury and explores the contributory causes involved before detailing effective models for therapy and methods of management.

Effective Management of Musculoskeletal Injury is research-based. It develops models for the management of musculoskeletal pain that include manual therapy, exercise, ergonomic and psychosocial interventions. Throughout the text particular attention is paid to pain resulting from cumulative and chronic types of injury. The book will be a valuable resource for all practitioners who deal with the management of musculoskeletal pain as part of their day to day practice.

  • Presents a complete system of patient management that treats the injury, the patient with the injury, and the patient's environment.
  • Examines the interface between ergonomics and manual therapy
  • The book emphasises understanding the cause of the injury and how these create the symptom picture
  • Addresses a major clinical problem area (chronic low back pain), which has high costs for the health systems and for employers
  • Provides a long-term solution to the demands on the time of practitioners by encouraging them to look beyond the presenting patient to the factors in their lifestyle which have created the problem
  • Topical - the problem of chronic back pain has become a major national crisis
  • Relevant to a broad spectrum of practitioners.

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    About the Author

    Andrew Wilson is a registered osteopath and qualified ergonomist. He works in private practice in New Zealand and also teaches to various professional groups concerned with the management of musculoskeletal problems. He graduated from the British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy in 1981. Since then hehas been in private practice as an osteopath in Tauranga New Zealand, where he is clinical director of a busy osteopathic clinic. He is a past president of the New Zealand Register of Osteopaths.

    Wilson started an ergonomic consultancy in 1992 completing over 500
    workplace assessments. Since then he developed his own workplace assessment system which he teaches to other practitioners. His particular interests lie in the rehabilitation of overuse injuries and related furniture design. . He has developed techniques specifically designed to address problems related to poor movement or posture. This book is based on his assessment system and related management techniques.

    He is also involved in teaching on the new masters course in osteopathy which was recently started up in Auckland, New Zealand.

    He lectures and writes about posture and ergonomics. His published
    books are 'Are You Sitting Comfortably?' (Optima) and 'The Complete
    Guide to Good Posture at Work' (Random House).

    "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

    Publisher
    Churchill Livingstone
    Publication date
    2001
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    0443063532
    ISBN 13 
    9780443063534
    Binding
    Paperback
    Number of pages
    232