This is a companion to Volume 1 with the same title and a similar approach: namely to draw together current understanding of the multifactorial nature of back pain. Both volumes together contain chapters contributed by most of the leading researchers into back pain in the UK and as such they constitute an unparalleled resource. Rather than concentrating on specialist areas such as surgery or the lumbar spine, the emphasis is on understanding the function and failure of the spine and its component tissues. As such it contains material which is applicable to anyone with an interest in any aspect of the spine; from biomechanics to blood flow, epidemiology to economics, nerves to nutrition and everything else in between.
The role of the blood supply in lumbar spine disorders, S. Hughes;
neuropeptides in the spine, S. Hughes and J. Polak; identifying pain sources
in the lumbar spine, R. Mulholland; spondylolisthesis, J. Johnson; ankylosing
spondylitis, A. Ross; epidemiology of back pain, P. Croft; digital
fluoroscopy and abnormal spinal movement, A. Breen; lumbar spine instability,
J Smeathers; lumbar isolated disc resporption, H. Crock; spine stabilization,
J. Fairbank; measuring health outcomes in clinical studies of low back pain,
A. Garrett; back pain in children or low back pain following fusion for
scoliosis, M. Edgar; epidural injections, K. Bush; radionucleotide bone
scanning of the lumbar spine, F. Smith; MRI of the lumbar spine, F. Smith;
management of spinal stenosis, J.E. Nixon; posterior lumbar interbody fusion,
M.R.K. Karpinski.
