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 /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deyo, Richard A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2014.
Colección:Culture and politics of health care work.
Temas:
Backache > Treatment.
Back > Diseases > Treatment.
Back Pain > therapy
Back > abnormalities
Back > pathology
Dos > Maladies > Traitement.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
MEDICAL > Chiropractic.
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.

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