Richard A. Deyo

Watch Your Back! (eBook, ePUB)

How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less-and What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself in Seeking Treatment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dr. Richard A. Deyo, proposes an approach to managing back pain, which most adults in the United States experience at some point, that empowers the individual and leads more directly to effective care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780801454547
• Artikelnr.: 48785708

Autorenporträt

Richard A. Deyo, MD, is Professor of Family Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University. Winner of the Wiltse Lifetime Achievement Award given by the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, he is coauthor of Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Back Pain Nation
2. Even the Best and Brightest
3. What's Wrong? What's Not? Can We Tell the Difference?
4. Painkillers: Easy Solutions Sometimes Aren't
5. Painkillers and the Marketing of Pain
6. Pain Management, Now That's Money
7. Stabbed in the Back
8. Surgical Gadgets and the Explosion of Fusion Surgery
9. The Pointed Search for Relief: Injections, Ablations, and Blocks, Oh My!
10. Why Would You Get Better after Useless Therapy?
11. Manipulating the Pain: Chiropractic and Other "Alternative" Treatments
12. Nobody Takes It Seriously!
13. Boot Camp
14. Amplifying Your Voice
15. Some Policy ImplicationsNotes
Index