Essential Guide to the Cervical Spine - Volume 2 - Clinical Syndromes and Manipulative Treatment [Torres - Elsevier Science]

Companion to The Cervical Spine: Volume 1 - Clinical Assessment and Therapeutic Approaches, Volume 2 comprehensively addresses the diagnosis and treatment of the various and complex syndromes that lie in the cervical spine, from discogenic syndromes to cervical myelopathy and the physical and psychological factors involved in whiplash. A particularly important chapter is devoted to the identification of risk factors in manual treatment of the cervical spine. The last chapter deals with new contributions in the neurobiology of pain and develops chronic neck pain from a biopsychosocial perspective. An essential book for all those who want to establish guidelines for safe and effective treatment of the cervical spine and their patients.