Low Back Disorders
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List Price: $49.00
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Manufacturer: Human Kinetics Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.564052
EAN: 9780736042413
ISBN: 0736042415
Label: Human Kinetics Publishers
Manufacturer: Human Kinetics Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 295
Publication Date: 2007-08-15
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Studio: Human Kinetics Publishers
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Get the latest information on evidence-based prevention and rehabilitation approaches from an internationally recognized expert; and learn how to apply the principles to low back disorders and low back pain in industry, sport, and everyday settings. Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation provides professionals with the foundation to make the best clinical decisions for building the best prevention and rehabilitation programs. The author’s unique research results quantify forces that specific movements and exercises impose on the low back. The text identifies commonly prescribed practices that are, in fact, contraindicated in promoting back health. Additionally, it provides appropriate strategies to offset injuries and restore function. Low Back Disorders will build your understanding of the science behind appropriate practices so that you can use them effectively with clients and patients. The book presents a clear exposition of back anatomy and biomechanics. It also provides the evidence to dispel myths regarding spine stabilization exercise and various prevention approaches. For example, the quantification of stability will show which muscles are important and which exercises groove motor patterns to ensure spine stability. With Low Back Disorders, you will gain valuable information on measured loading of the back during specific activities and apply it to avoid common—but counterproductive—practices in back rehab, learn how to analyze patients’ and clients’ unique physical characteristics and lifestyle factors and tailor treatments and preventive measures to their individual needs, and learn how to help patients and clients achieve the low back stability required to prevent future damage and back pain. You'll also acquire the information necessary to prescribe effective exercises clearly and easily. The text offers practical guidelines for developing optimal exercise regimens and over 40 tests and exercises for diagnosis and prevention of low back pain, carefully selected or developed based on measured biomechanical factors. Low Back Disorders addresses in detail the ergonomic issues related to manual materials handling and injuries and low back pain associated with seated work and sport, and throughout the book it reinforces their application in functional activities.
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Summary: Good info. maybe outdated, too technical for average reader
Comment: It appears that some of the research in this book is older-not the most recent findings available. I was hoping this would provide a user friendly presentation of back disorders found in the population today and applicable evidence. I am somewhat familiar with anatomy from both Pilates and Yoga training but still didn't get a lot from this book. The studies showed pictures and older equipment, the material may be beneficial for some but a warning to the general population just hoping to learn more about their own body/injury and prevention or rehabilitation exercises-not that promising from my perspective. Obviously I am not a medical professional but I do think this book would be more valuable to someone with anatomy experience.
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Summary: Low Back Disorders
Comment: Phenomenal work. Great for those who work with patients with back issues. I would highly recommend it!
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Summary: Too Important to be Read only by Therapists
Comment: Though longer and harder to read than most exercise books written for the general reader, Stuart McGill's, Low Back Disorders, has such ground breaking information it is well worth buying.
McGill sets out cutting edge research to show, among other things:
1. Why endurance is more protective than strength;
2. Why stability is vastly more important than flexibility;
3. Why usually "preserving the normal low back curve" during exercise causes less stress on the spine than doing a pelvic tilt or flattening the back against the exercise mat;
4. Why back exercises should not be done during the first hour or 2 after arising; and,
5. Why adding repetitions to an exercise is safer and more productive than prolonging the hold during each repetition. Holds should be no longer than 7-8 seconds.
Following these and other specific recommendations makes doing McGill's exercises and those in other books safer and more effective.
McGill says no one exercise plan can fit the needs of every patient so he leaves it up to the therapist to determine the number of sets and repetitions needed to generate endurance. This is fine for therapists but gives inadequate guidance for the non-therapist reader and fails to take into account the needs of all those whose back problems are not so unique as to require a therapist.
By paying attention to the table of contents and the section headings, the reader can probably avoid getting bogged down in the details of the research findings. Or one can simply read the injury prevention primer (pp. 154-156), chapter 10 for the background to the exercises, and chapter 12 for the exercises.
McGill devises several new exercises that build the muscles of the back and torso while placing less stress on the spine. He also revises the way some of the old standard exercises are done.
However, he does not provide enough alternate exercises when his exercises prove too difficult or painful to do.
Because no one book can meet everyone's needs, I also encourage buying:
1. The Back Pain Book by Mike Hage; and,
2. The Multifidus Back Pain Solution by Jim Johnson.
Both books are very easy to read. Hage's book is a comprehensive, well illustrated treasure.
Johnson's book highlights the need for and shows 4 ways to do one key exercise, an exercise that both McGill and Hage (I have the 1992 edition of Hage's book) include but show only one way to do, a way that is painful for me.
In summary, all 3 books provide uniquely valuable information and each one of them has helped me.
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Summary: Must have book for rehab. professionals.
Comment: This book is a great reference text for anyone who treats low back injuries and works to create lumbar core stabilization. Following the work of Janda and others, McGill has taken core stabilization to the next level. His research based approach is 100% applicable and easy to follow. He presents the science of how the body works and this is great. McGill, also being a Ph.D., does not have a medical, chiropractic, or other bias...he presents things as he finds them through studies. This is a great book and well worth every penny...
For those in the fitness field, I recommend the Ultimate Back Fitness book...very applicable and easier to follow...
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Summary: Mostly NOT a book for the layman.
Comment: Some other reviewers have (directly or indirectly) made it clear that this book is primarily for researchers, doctors, and other health-care professionals, but I would like to re-state this as clearly and emphatically as possible, as some buyers may be seriously misled by claims (not made by the author!) that it is "a book that can be read by almost everyone" or one that "every patient suffering from low back pain should read". Only Part 3 (about specific exercises to do and not do) fits that description. Parts 1 and 2 are highly technical and addressed almost entirely to physicians and academic researchers. For someone without a good working knowledge of anatomy (that's me, in case you think I'm being condescending to the ignorant masses), these parts of the book are impossible to follow. My advice to the sufferer from low-back pain (again, that's me) would be to get the book from a library and concentrate entirely on part 3.
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