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

Publication Data

• Title 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
• Author Richard A. Deyo
• Publisher ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
• Publication date 2014
• Publication location Ithaca
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• Backache :: Treatment
• Back :: Diseases :: Treatment

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 by Richard A. Deyo. ISBN 9780801453243. Published by ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.