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Contributing Authors
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgment
1 Introduction 1
2 A Review of Social Influences on Neck and Back Pain and Disability 13
3 Psychological Risk Factors for Neck and Back Pain 57
4 Influences of Individual Factors and Smoking on Neck and Low Back Pain 79
5 Work-Related Influences on Neck and Low Back Pain 97
6 Preventive Interventions for Back and Neck Pain 127
7 Neurophysiology of Back Pain: Current Knowledge 149
8 Epidemiology of Neck and Low Back Pain 165
9 Assessment of Patients with Neck and Back Pain: A Best-Evidence Synthesis 189
10 Introduction to Treatment of Neck and Back Pain 237
11 Conservative Treatment of Acute and Subacute Low Back Pain 241
12 Conservative Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain 271
13 Surgical Treatment of Lumbar Disc Prolapse and Degenerative Lumber Disc Disease 305
14 Acute and Subacute Neck Pain: Nonsurgical Treatment 327
15 Nonsurgical Treatment of Chronic Neck Pain 339
16 Surgical Treatment of Neck Pain 355
17 Utility of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychological Treatments 361
18 Treatment of Neck and Low Back Pain in Primary Care 383
19 Cost-Effectiveness of Treatment of Neck and Low Back Pain 399
20 Cost of Back Pain in Some OECD Countries 421
21 Review of Social Security Systems 427
Subject Index 473