Do You Really Need Back Surgery?
A Surgeon's Guide to Neck and Back Pain and How to Choose Your Treatment
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199895519
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 155x231x27 mm
- Weight 635 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 95 halftones & line illus. 0
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Short description:
This new edition of Do You Really Need Back Surgery? provides a wide range of information for back and neck pain sufferers - ranging from "Pilates to Pedicle Screws." It is written by a world famous neurosurgical spine expert, who is also a widely published author, and contains answers to questions that your doctors often don't have time to discuss. It is an essential manual for every neck or back pain sufferer.
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Most people have back surgery to relieve pain, but all too often it doesn't help. For the half million people who undergo back surgery each year, and the additional million who are seriously contemplating it, Do You Really Need Back Surgery?, Second Edition, is a godsend--an informed, reliable guide to when you should consider surgery and when you should not.
Written by an internationally recognized expert in nerve and spinal surgery, this highly readable guide covers everything back patients need to know to make informed decisions about their treatment. The book discusses the details of spinal anatomy; explains the difference between acute, chronic, and recurring pain; shows how to keep the spine healthy; and defines such terms as spurs, stenosis, and slippage. It also reveals what clues your physician uses to predict whether a given type of pain is likely to go away with rest and exercise, and which types may become emergencies. Dr. Filler discusses the risks of surgery, the decisions you may be faced with and what options you have, and your expectations for recovery. He provides detailed explanations of the wide array of spinal injections and surgeries, including discectomies and fusions, as well as innovative procedures such as electrothermic and laser techniques and artificial disks. He explains the various medical imaging and diagnostic tests available and even covers the complexities of health insurance.
The new and extensively revised edition of this book is expanded to cover the impact of dozens of new advanced technologies in spinal diagnostics and treatment that have emerged in the eight years since the original very successful edition. Advances in new types of pain medications and new types of surgeries that minimize recovery time and achieve better outcomes are explained. In addition, this book examines the problems in the case of a few new devices in spinal surgery where money from medical device manufacturers has led to distorted research that had to be withdrawn. A major change from the previous edition is the inclusion of two chapters that describe a series of different nerve entrapment syndromes that can cause headache, neck, shoulder and arm pain as well as causing buttock and leg pain - but are not caused by spine problems. This includes information about piriformis syndrome causing sciatic, thoracic outlet syndrome causing shoulder and neck pain and about pudendal nerve entrapments causing groin and pelvis pains.
From Pilates to pedicle screws, and from osteoporosis to spina bifida, Do You Really Need Back Surgery?, Second Edition, covers all the questions your doctor usually doesn't have the time to answer. Featuring almost 100 illustrations, it is an essential manual for every neck or back pain sufferer.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Spine & Nerve Health
1. Acute, Chronic & Recurring: A Quick Tour of Neck & Back Pain
2. The Nature of Pain and How It Is Treated
3. Keeping the Spine Healthy: Ergonomics for Life
4. Renewal Without Surgery: Schools of Therapy
5. Anatomy 101: From Bones, Disks and Joints to Mind, Muscles and Nerves
6. Disks, Spurs, Stenosis, Slippage and Osteoporosis
7. Spinal Symptoms: Where Does That Pain Come From?
8. Accidents of the Embryo: Spina Bifida & Variations at Birth
9. Patterns of Nerve Pinches: From Shoulder to Toe (NEW)
10. Medical Imaging & Diagnostic Tests: X-rays, Electrons, & Magnetic Spin
11. Regeneration & Repair in the Nerves and Spinal Cord
Part II: Spine & Nerve Surgery
12. Without an Incision: Percutaneous Procedures for Diagnosis & Treatment
13. Surgery-Before, During & After: Common Elements You Should Know About
14. Surgery to Take the Pressure Off the Neural Tissues of the Spine
15. Surgery Inside the Spinal Dural Lining
16. Spine Carpentry: History & Principles of Rebuilding the Broken Spine
17. Fixing the Cervical Spine: Surgical Approaches to the Neck
18. Thoracic Spine Operations: Surgical Approaches to Mid- & Upper-Back Problems
19. Lumbar Implants and Fusion: Major Surgeries for the Low Back
20. Surgery to Release Nerve Entrapments in the Shoulder, Arm, Pelvis and Legs (NEW)
21. Genes, Designer Proteins, and Biomaterials: The Role of Biotechnology in Spine and Nerve Surgery
22. Risks, Outcomes and Choices
23. Recovery After Surgery
24. Health Insurance and the Cost of Surgery
Epilogue: Knowledge and Resilience
