Watch Your Back! : 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 /
Presents a new approach to managing back pain that focuses on the empowerment of individuals and fewer medical interventions, while exposing the motives and conflicts of interest behind traditional treatments. --Publisher's description.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Back pain nation
- Even the best and brightest
- What's wrong? What's not? Can we tell the difference?
- Painkillers: easy solutions sometimes aren't
- Painkillers and the marketing of pain
- Pain management, now that's money
- Stabbed in the back
- Surgical gadgets and the explosion of fusion surgery
- The pointed search for relief: injections, ablations, and blocks, oh my!
- Why would you get better after useless therapy?
- Manipulating the pain: chiropractic and other alternative treatments
- Nobody takes it seriously!
- Boot camp
- Amplifying your voice
- Some policy implications.