From Acute to Chronic Back Pain: Risk Factors, Mechanisms, and Clinical Implications

by Dennis C. Turk, Monika I. Hasenbring, Adina C. Rusu

Chronic back pain has been and continues to be a major cause of distress (both to people with persistent pain and their significant others), disability, work loss, and a huge cost to society. Moreover, with the aging population, it is becoming even more prevalent and as a consequence is having an escalating impact upon the healthcare systems and society as a whole worldwide. A significant issue concerns understanding why, although the majority of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199558906
• ISBN13: 9780199558902
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.8" x 9.7"