Back Pain: How to Relieve Low Back Pain and Sciatica

by Loren Fishman, Carol Ardman

"This book is by far the best one I have read about back pain...a user-friendly, positive, helpful book on back pain that I will certainly recommend to all my patients."--C. B. Lewis, Ph.D. Dr. Loren Fishman, a distinguished clinician and a trailblazer in the treatment of sciatica, believes there's only one road to relief: patients must become partners with their doctors in naming the cause of their pain and in making treatment decisions. Based on the latest research and on Dr. Fishman's fifteen years of experience in treating patients successfully, Back Pain is filled with pain-saving advice and instructional facts: so many adults suffer bouts of back pain that many doctors consider them normal occurrences; like a cold or flu more than four days of bed rest can make a back ache worse; patients who choose chiropractors visit them twice as often as those who choose medical doctors more than 25 percent of people who go to orthopedic surgeons have referred themselves; the initial treatment any doctor is likely to prescribe is aspirin; sciatica is one of the three major causes of back pain.

Genres: Medical

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

Loren Fishman, MD, is a professor at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and lives in New York City. "

Reviews

[Msimone · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book informs thoroughly about the anatomy of the spine and associates vertébral discs with anatomical areas where pain is felt. It gives you a vocabulary to express the sensations of pain rationally and succintly to your doctor so as to help him/her with a diagnosis and remedy. Particularly useful are the charts and figures associated with vertébrae and discs, nerves and muscles in the body. The chapters on prévention, and intervention are very good as are the glossary and bibliographie

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm actually turning this back in because it's due and I'm going to the doctor next month.

[Terese · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finding this helpful in understanding my condition, and that I'm not crazy for the things I'm feeling