One woman's struggle to find happiness and peace in the face of debilitating and life-changing chronic back pain and her triumph over it.

This monograph analyses all aspects related to the etiopathogenesis, pathomorphology, diagnosis and treatment of lumbar disc herniation. Five chapters are dedicated to biological and pathomorphologic aspects, and five deal with the clinical presentation and diagnostic tests in an extremely wide and detailed way. Large space is reserved to cons[Read More]

A general consensus exists,that lumbosacral nerve root compression is the primary cause of sciatica and neurogenic claudication, although humoral and vascular factors certainly play a role as well. This book focuses on imaging the various ways in which nerve root compression can come about, and determining which anatomic features are reliably assoc[Read More]

In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading." Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours[Read More]

Written by internationally renowned experts in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, anatomy and neuroradiology, this book presents a comprehensive approach to the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of stenosis of the lumbar spine - a condition that is seen in most humans by the age of 70 or before. Organized into five sections, this multi-contributed book co[Read More]

This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM provides the best collection available anywhere of official Federal government information and documents on the subject of spinal cord disorders. This CD-ROM uses next-generation search technology that allows complete indexing and makes all files on the disc fully searchable. For patients, practical informa[Read More]

Centenary Clinic, Antwerp, Belgium. Comprehensive and illustrated text presenting basic sciences, clinical presentation, physiopathology, and diagnosis, to conservative and surgical treatment modalities. Also discusses economic and ethical considerations and management of LSS. For clinicians, researchers, and manipulation therapists. DNLM: Spinal S[Read More]

Every human being suffers from back pain at some point in life. In an effort to find relief, people turn to a wide variety of treatments, and to doctors who will prescribe narcotic painkillers. What they don t realize is that many of these treatments -- especially narcotic drugs -- actually interfere with their body s own ability to heal and overco[Read More]

This up-to-date and comprehensive set of two CD-ROM discs provides a superb collection of authoritative documents on the subject of spinal cord disorders, injuries, and spinal stenosis. The spinal cord is the part of your nervous system that relays messages to and from your brain. It is housed inside your vertebrae, which are the bone disks that ma[Read More]

This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to spinal stenosis (also Cer[Read More]