Low Back Disorders - Hardcover

McGill, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0736042415 ISBN 13: 9780736042413

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

An authoritative description of functional strategies designed to improve back health and restore or maintain back function following injury. The text refutes practices which are contra-indicated in promoting back health and provides appropriate strategies to offset injuries and restore function. For ease of reference, the book is divided into three parts. Part one reviews the issues pertinent to low back injury prevention and rehabilitation, functional anatomy and biomechanics and how the back is prone to mechanical failure. Part two looks at how to develop improved injury prevention programmes by assessing the risks, creating ergonomic interventions and training personnel. Part three deals with how to improve rehabilitation techniques through proper training and exercise programmes. Ergonomic issues related to manual handling, repetitive motion injuries and sport are dealt with in detail and knowledge of content and its application is reinforced with tutorials in each part of the book.

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Review

""McGill's text on "Low Back Disorders" is one that every treating clinician should have for their own professional library.""-"AAESS News "(Australian Association for Exercise and Sports Science) ""This is a fine blend between science and practical application by a credible author. The author is in a unique position to share his own valuable research and clinical experience to advance the treatment of alleviating low back disorders." "Doody's Book Review Service

About the Author

Stuart McGill, PhD, is a professor at the University of Waterloo at Waterloo, Ontario, and a world-renowned lecturer and expert in spine function and injury prevention and rehabilitation He has written more than 200 scientific publications that address lumbar function, low back injury mechanisms, investigation of tissue loading during rehabilitation programs, and the formulation of work-related injury avoidance strategies. Dr. McGill has been an invited lecturer at many universities and delivered more than 200 addresses to societies around the world. He is one of the few scientists who consults and to whom patients are regularly referred.

Edition details

• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0736042415
• ISBN 13: 9780736042413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 312