Spinal Control: The Rehabilitation of Back Pain. State of the Art and Science

Description:

For the first time, international scientific and clinical leaders have collaborated to present this exclusive book which integrates state-of-the art engineering concepts of spine control into clinically relevant approaches for the rehabilitation of low back pain. Spinal Control identifies the scope of the problem around motor control of the spine and pelvis while defining key terminology and methods as well as placing experimental findings into context.

Spinal Control also includes contributions that put forward different sides of critical arguments (e.g. whether or not to focus on training the deep muscles of the trunk) and then bring these arguments together to help both scientists and clinicians better understand the convergences and divergences within this field.

On the one hand, this book seeks to resolve many of the issues that are debated in existing literature, while on the other, its contributing opinion leaders present current best practice on how to study the questions facing the field of spine control, and then go on to outline the key directions for future research.

Spinal Control - the only expert resource which provides a trusted, consensus approach to low back pain rehabilitation for both clinicians and scientists alike!

Features:

• Covers the most important issues in spine control research
• Illustrates the clinical relevance of research and how this is or can be applied in clinical practice
• Edited and written by world leading experts, contributing first class content on different aspects of spine control
• Chapters that bring together the expertise of these world leaders on topics such as neuromotor mechanisms of spine control, prioprioception, subgrouping in back pain and modelling spine stability
• An extensive and illustrated clinical consensus chapter that brings together the philosophies of clinical opinion leaders for the first time

Table of Contents:

Preface
List of contributors

• Ch 1: Introduction
  Paul W. Hodges, Jacek Cholewicki, Jaap H. van Dieën

Section 1 - Mechanical Spine Models

• Ch 2: Cholewicki: Spine systems science: a primer on the systems approach
  N. Peter Reeves, Jacek Cholewicki
• Ch 3: Computational models for trunk trajectory planning and load distribution: a test-bed for studying various clinical adaptation and motor control strategies of low back pain patients
  Mohamad Parnianpour
• Ch 4: Mechanical changes in the spine in back pain
  Greg Kawchuk

Section 2 - Motor Control of the Spine

• Ch 5: Spine function and low-back pain: interactions of active and passive structures
  Jaap H. van Dieën, Idsart Kingma
• Ch 6: Adaptation and rehabilitation: From motoneurones to motor cortex and behaviour
  Paul W. Hodges
• Ch 7: Opinions on the links between back pain and motor control: the disconnect between clinical practice and research
  Stuart McGill
• Ch 8: The kinesiopathologic model and mechanical low back pain
  Linda R. Van Dillen, Shirley A. Sahrmann, Barbara J. Norton
• Ch 9: The relationship between control of the spine and low back pain: a clinical researcher’s perspective
  Julie A. Hides
• Ch 10: Existing muscle synergies and low back pain: a case for preventative intervention
  Jack P. Callaghan, Erika Nelson-Wong
• Ch 11: Trunk muscle control and back pain: chicken, egg, neither or both?
  G. Lorimer Moseley

Section 3 - Proprioceptive Systems

• Ch 12: Altered variability in proprioceptive postural strategy in people with recurrent low back pain
  Simon Brumagne, Lotte Janssens, Kurt Claeys, Madelon Pijnenburg
• Ch 13: Proprioceptive contributions from paraspinal muscle spindles to the relationship between control of the trunk and back pain
  Joel G. Pickar
• Ch 14: Time-dependent mechanisms that impair muscle protection of the spine.
  Patricia Dolan, Michael A. Adams

Section 4 - Clinical Evidence of Control Approach

• Ch 15: Effectiveness of exercise therapy for chronic non-specific low-back pain
  Marienke van Middelkoop, Sidney Rubinstein, Arianne Verhagen, Raymond Ostelo, Bart Koes, Maurits van Tulder

Section 5 - State-of-the-Art Reviews

• Ch 16: How can models of motor control be useful for understanding low back pain? (Summary chapter 1)
  N. Peter Reeves, Jacek Cholewicki, Mark Pearcy, Mohamad Parnianpour
• Ch 17: Targeting interventions to patients: development and evaluation (Summary chapter 2)
  Linda van Dillen, Maurits van Tulder
• Ch 18: Motor control changes and low-back pain, cause or effect? (Summary chapter 3)
  Jaap H. van Dieën, G. Lorimer Moseley, Paul W. Hodges
• Ch 19: What is the relation between proprioception and low back pain? (Summary chapter 4)
  Simon Brumagne, Patricia Dolan, Joel G. Pickar
• Ch 20: Motor control of the spine and changes in pain: Debate about the extrapolation from research observations of motor control strategies to effective treatments for back pain (Summary chapter 5)
  Paul W. Hodges, Stuart McGill, Julie A. Hides

Section 6 - State-of-the-Art Approach to Clinical Rehabilitation of Low Back and Pelvic Pain

• Ch 21: Integrated clinical approach to motor control interventions in low back and pelvic pain
  Paul W. Hodges, Linda van Dillen, Stuart McGill, Simon Brumagne, Julie A. Hides, G. Lorimer Moseley

Index

Edited by Paul W. Hodges, PhD MedDr DSc BPhty(Hons) FACP, Professor & NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow / Director, NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury & Health, School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia; Jacek Cholewicki, PhD, Walter F. Patenge Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA and Jaap H van Dieen, PhD, Professor of Biomechanics, MOVE Research Institute, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands