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Stuart McGill

The third edition of Low Back Disorders contains all of the essential tools for treating those with low back maladies. The text provides detailed insights into injury assessment by an extensively expanded set of tests with accompanying instructions. Also new to this edition is a web resource featuring 23 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.

1450472915

English

Human Kinetics Publishers

10 January 2016

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Stuart McGill is a professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and a world-renowned lecturer and expert in spine function, injury prevention and rehabilitation. He has written more than 300 scientific publications on lumbar function, mechanisms of low back injury, investigation of rehabilitation programmes matched to specific categories of back pain patients and the formulation of work-related injury avoidance strategies.

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