Low Back Ache
Description
This volume aims to be an evidence-based, one-stop, comprehensive, lucid scientific document covering all the aspects and dimensions of low back pain. The incidence and prevalence of low back pain are magnanimous. They are one of the leading causes of loss of working hours in establishments and a significant cause of workers' compensation, directly impacting a country's economy.
This book contains authoritative chapters covering all the aspects of low back pain, including recent advances, newer applications, epidemiology, anatomy, physiology, clinical examination, investigations, non-operative management, operative interventions, medico-legal aspects, recent advances, etc. The chapter authors are experts and well-recognized authorities and masters in their fields. The list of authors is very exhaustive and cumulative across the globe. This is to be a treatise fulfilling all the existing broad lacunae in approach, protocols, suspicion, clinical examination, diagnosis, and management of this entity.
Chapters are written in easy-to-follow management plan algorithms, and keynotes for easy and ready reference describe recent advances in diagnostic modalities. Which also explains the treatment regimes in detail. The controversies are elucidated and concluded with firm and sound references from evidence-based literature. Every line will have a firm scientific standing and corroborative pictorial illustrations. The varied presentations of the disease in varied socio-economic strata and geographic regions, along with different principle-based approaches to the disease spectrum, shall be discussed at length.
Different clinical settings and scenarios from pediatrics, adults, and geriatrics - all age groups will be included in the concerned chapters to keepup the interest with the topic amongst its readers and shall consist of a treatise on the historical perspectives of low back ache too. The editors aim to make this treatise on low back pain a one-stop reference textbook on the topic of "Low Back Ache" by medical students and trainees, fellows, chiropractors, medical teachers, orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, physiotherapists, etc. all alike dealing with low back ache.
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Persons
Dr. Sarvdeep Singh Dhatt has published over 200 publications, including 25 chapters in various books. He has edited two highly circulated books recommended, read, and referred by spine and trauma specialists worldwide. He has two patents to his credit and is currently working as a Professor of Orthopaedics in one of the best teaching institutes in the country, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh. He is an International Committee member of Eurospine. He has won many national and international awards, including the "Varoon Mahajan Memorial Trust Inc." Travelling fellowship, the Scoliosis Research Society 2016 Global Outreach Program (GOP) Educational Scholarship, and the Scoliosis Research Society Medical Fellow Award 2016. He is the lead Investigator of several intramural and extramural projects. Many of his completed research works are well-published in literature with high citations. He is the core faculty and coordinator of the spine fellowship program at his center.
Dr. Vishal Kumar is an Additional Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Vishal has edited two textbooks on Orthopaedics. He has authored about twenty chapters in different books and has more than two hundred paper publications to his credit in several peer-reviewed journals. He is a scholarly reviewer of several esteemed Orthopaedic journals. He has delivered over eighty lectures oninternational and national podiums and attended/organized/convened several Workshops, CME, Symposiums, etc. He has been trained in the sub-specialty of spine & trauma by four international & five national fellowships. Dr. Vishal Kumar has innovated several surgical procedures that are well-published in the literature. He is the Investigator of several intra-mural & extramural research projects, and several postgraduate trainees have done and are doing their thesis work under his supervision.
Content
Lumber spine anatomy.- Molecular biology of degenerative disc disease.-
Pain generators and hypotheses of low back pain.- Applied bio mechanics of lumbar spine.- Applied radiology of the lumber spine.