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Clinical Reasoning in Spine Pain,
Edition 1 Primary Management of Low Back Disorders with the CRISP PrinciplesEditors: By Donald R. Murphy, DC, FRCC and Gary Jacob
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01 Mar 2027
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An ideal resource for busy clinicians and students who encounter patients with spine-related disorders, Clinical Reasoning in Spine Pain: Primary Management of Low Back Disorders with the CRISP Principles is an up-to-date manual that provides practical approaches to diagnosis and treatment. This unique guide synthesizes a vast amount of information on spine care into a concise, user-friendly format for the clinic or the classroom, offering a systematic, time-saving approach that can be applied in any clinical context.
Key Features
- Clearly explains Clinical Reasoning in Spine Pain® (the CRISP® principles): an evidence-based, patient-centered approach that encompasses all potential biological, psycho-emotional, and social factors that can contribute to patients’ suffering in diagnosis and management.
- Offers a focused, streamlined approach to a complex topic for easy understanding and immediate application.
- Explains the decision-making process to determine appropriate treatment, an evidence-based means of monitoring progress, how to make referral decisions.
- Teaches up-to-date manual, exercise, and self-care techniques that can easily be applied in a busy clinical or teaching environment.
- Features 250 high-quality images for visual guidance, including figures of spine care pathways, photos of diagnostic tests and exercises, x-ray and MRI images, and photos and line drawings of spine pathophysiology.
- Offers practical, evidence-based, “how-to” guidance for clinicians, instructors, students, and researchers whose work involves patients with low back disorders.
About the author
By Donald R. Murphy, DC, FRCC, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA and Gary Jacob, Clinical Professor, Southern California University of Health Sciences and Doctoral Faculty, Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, USA
Section I. Background Introduction. Primary Spine Care and Low Back Disorders
1. Principles of Primary Spine Care
2. The Aetiology of Low Back Disorders – The Biopsychosocial Model
Section II. Diagnosis Using the Clinical Reasoning in Spine Pain™ Protocols
3. Taking a Thorough and Efficient History
4. Diagnostic Question #1
5. Diagnostic Question #2
6. Diagnostic Question #3
7. Establishing a Diagnosis, Clinical Decision Making and Outcome Measurement
Section III. Management Based on the Clinical Reasoning in Spine Pain™ Protocols
8. Principles of Effective Patient Management
9. General Management Strategies
10. Treatment Approaches for Diagnostic Question #2
11. Treatment Approaches for Diagnostic Question #3
12. Maximum Medical Improvement, Aftercare and Referral Decisions
1. Principles of Primary Spine Care
2. The Aetiology of Low Back Disorders – The Biopsychosocial Model
Section II. Diagnosis Using the Clinical Reasoning in Spine Pain™ Protocols
3. Taking a Thorough and Efficient History
4. Diagnostic Question #1
5. Diagnostic Question #2
6. Diagnostic Question #3
7. Establishing a Diagnosis, Clinical Decision Making and Outcome Measurement
Section III. Management Based on the Clinical Reasoning in Spine Pain™ Protocols
8. Principles of Effective Patient Management
9. General Management Strategies
10. Treatment Approaches for Diagnostic Question #2
11. Treatment Approaches for Diagnostic Question #3
12. Maximum Medical Improvement, Aftercare and Referral Decisions
ISBN:
9780443400322
Page Count:
307
Retail Price
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Any clinician, instructor, professor, student or scientist whose work focuses on spine-related disorders: Chiropractors, Physical Therapists (Physiotherapists) and Osteopaths