Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation

by Stuart McGill

Low Back Disorders, Third Edition With Web Resource, guides readers through the assessment and treatment of low back pain, providing evidence-based research on the best methods of rehabilitation and prevention of future injury. In this book, internationally recognized low back specialist Stuart McGill presents the research and applications of back anatomy and biomechanics to build effective prevention and rehabilitation programs for patients or clients.

This third edition of Low Back Disorders contains all of the essential tools for those with low back maladies. Strong foundational information on anatomy and injury mechanisms guide readers through the essential functions of the structures of the low back and related tissues, and common misconceptions about pain and discomfort are addressed and corrected. The text provides detailed insights into injury assessment by an extensively expanded set of tests with accompanying instructions. These provide guidance and recommendations for individualized rehabilitation strategies and exercises. Also new to this edition is a web resource featuring 20 fillable Handouts for Patients or Clients that can be edited and printed to suit practitioner and patients’ needs. The web resource also contains an online video suite that showcases various exercises and assessments. In addition to offering strategies for relieving and potentially eliminating pain, the text provides insight into the conditions and environments that may initially cause back pain and makes recommendations on reducing these influences so that clients can be pain free.

This book contains more than 500 photos, graphs, and charts on anatomy, biomechanics, and assessments; 50 tests and exercises with step-by-step instructions are available to aid readers in developing successful programs for patients and clients. In addition to the evidence-based foundation of this edition, the following enhancements have been made:

• Completely updated information and streamlined chapter organization ensure that practitioners use best clinical practices.
• Practical checklists throughout the text provide easy access to testing and assessment clinical techniques and information.
• Practical Applications provide clinical information to aid readers in understanding concepts and theory.

Low Back Disorders, Third Edition With Web Resource, contains essential research and corresponding clinical applications in a clear and organized format. Part I introduces the functional anatomy and biomechanics of the lumbar spine. It also presents epidemiological studies on low back disorders and dispels common myths of lumbar spine stability. Part II reviews risk factors for low back disorders and common prevention methods, with specific attention paid to reducing workplace risk factors. Part III explains evaluating and diagnosing clients and developing exercise and rehabilitation programs. Specific exercises that are proven to enhance performance and reduce pain are also explained.

Evidence-based research and cutting-edge application strategies from a leading spine specialist in North America make Low Back Disorders, Third Edition With Web Resource, the authoritative text for the examination and rehabilitation of the low back. Its approach to back care will lead readers in developing intervention, rehabilitation, and prevention programs to address the unique needs of each patient or client.

Genres: Health, Fitness, Nonfiction, Science, Textbooks, Physical Therapy

424 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Stuart McGill, PhD, is a professor at the University of Waterloo in, Ontario, Canada and an internationally recognized lecturer and expert in spine function and injury prevention and rehabilitation. He has written more than 200 scientific publications that address lumbar function, low back injury mechanisms, investigation of tissue loading during rehabilitation programs, and the formulation of work-related injury avoidance strategies. He has received several awards for his work, including the Volvo Bioengineering Award for Low Back Pain Research from Sweden. Dr. McGill has been an invited lecturer at many universities and delivered more than 200 addresses to societies around the world. As a consultant, he has provided expertise on assessment and reduction of the risk of low back injury to government agencies, corporations, professional athletes and teams, and legal firms. He is one of the few scientists who consults and to whom patients are regularly referred.

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Intended for practitioners so included data I as a mere back pain sufferer didn't look at in too much detail (though good to know it's there unlike other sources of information about the back. The portions of the book I read were useful in terms of exercises and tests, though I need to really need pick up the lay-audience targeted Back Mechanic.

[Enlightened Idiot · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rating is for all the works of Stuart McGill I have read so far.

It’s what it says on the cover: evidence based back health… but also a lot more.
To some extent the writing is lacking, it’s more for a general audience than professionals. But this only means there is less Kauderwelsch and more down to earth sentences. Also some insight into legal matters, although not detailed it will make some decisions by doctors very see-through for the patient.

Most clinical evidence in the book also appears to reflect whatever professional athletes and workers practice.
Doctors would say the deadlift is dangerous, practice says the form makes weights less dangerous and so does this book backed by research.
It was about time an engineer looked into how the body works.
If I could go back in time I would take Arnold’s book from my hands after finishing it, slap myself as hard as needed to sober up and put “Ultimate back fitness and performance” into my hands.

Either way, buyer beware: all the works heavily deal with dynamic disc bulges, or the flexion type of back hurt with only minor mentions of other types of issues. This is me included whose master clinician found I was actually extension intolerant and had bad hips.

Information in the books is very needed though as I would have offended myself less and had been off happier if I had not heeded to locally acknowledged medicine based on mythological claims by “musings of individuals who have reached the end of their expertise” as McGill puts it.
If you know someone with back troubles, stop sending them instagram reels from randos and send them a podcast with the Doc on it - it’ll help more.

[Tiarnán · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful book for anyone with back pain. McGill is one of the few practitioners who combines clinical insights and 'what works' with hard experimental science and data. Follow his 'big three' and combine that with isometric strength training and you can stabilise your back pain, or even begin to reduce it.

[Mike Sanders · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful clinical text. Struggles in that it's also partly written for a public audience, not to understand, but for them to KNOW that McGill has written this - causing confusions with levels of detail and random spats of narrative that don't fit and give an incorrect anecdotal view for very diverse explanations.

[Sebastian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I found this book (and the author, of course) earlier in my life, it would helped me more than now. The book is very explicative for everyone who is in need for expertise upon low back problems.

[Leigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent, informative, new (to me) info about back movement patterns and spine mechanics that are giving me hope. I bought Back Mechanic for slightly easier self-help language for the non-professional. I'm hoping this new perspective will finally help my son get some relief from chronic back pain.

[Tony · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

[Natalie]

Vince rec

[James Pinola · Rating 5 out of 5]

An eloquent combination of wisdom, scientific evidence and years of clinical practice.

[Jessica]

Written primarily for clinicians.

[Kieran Donnelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

A laborious read. But to the right reader, a clear route to ridding yourself of back pain.

[Jarrod Payne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great technical read for people with back pain

This is an in-depth and scientific look at back pain research, assessment and treatment. If you're a consultant or technically minded reader you will enjoy the thorough unpacking of the topic area.

If you are not interested in this level of depth or find anatomy conversations boring or difficult I would read Back Mechanic instead. This is unashamedly as resource for the physical treatment industry.

[Reid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. For clinicians, not laypeople, but I learned too much in any case. My basic knowledge of spinal anatomy limited but did not completely blunt my education (you should know what "microfracturing of the transverse tribeculae" means without too much wondering.). This is not for consumers.

[Gustav Yulius · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is very resourceful for a sciatica sufferer like me. It is simple and full of eye-opening knowledge on how to care for my low back. I know which unsafe posture and exercises to avoid. The five-stage back training program is very make sense. I am now undergoing the rehab by focusing on stabilizing my spine first. Hopefully with time and discipline I can begin to see the results.

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[Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anyone struggling with lower back injuries or working with people with lower back disorders should pick this up. Some of his ideas are pretty much a-DUH but how he effortlessly explains himself is brilliant.

[Kayla Purdum · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for learning proper strengthening of low back. First free read I did at chiropractic school. Very educational

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Myth-busting!

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book for practitioners, not lay people (who have low back disorders(,

[Meggers McNeely · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best back book for health professional and personal trainers out there.

[Meg Hammond · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sciency.

[Bojan Avramovic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Klasicni precenjeni Stuart McGill