Neck and arm pain

by Rene Cailliet

Book Overview

This popular series, by a distinguished professor of physical medicine, has proved helpful to physicians and therapists all over the world. Each book offers sound, common-sense guidance in diagnosing and treating painful and disabling conditions. In every book, the author's lucid text and instructional drawings provide a strong foundation in the basic and functional anatomy of the pain's region. He discusses various painful conditions and shows how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803616090
• ISBN13: 9780803616097
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: F.A. Davis
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Third Edition fromt the Pain Series

Contents Include: 1 - Functional Anatomy [Total Spinal Column * Cervical Spine * Cervical Spine Functional Units] 2 - The Cervical Nerves [Greater Superior Occipital Nerve * The Sympathetic Nervous System] 3 - Posture [Chronologic Development of Posture * Neurologic Concepts of Posture * Developmental Concepts of Posture * The Feeling of Proper Posture - Developmental Concepts * Acquired Postural Influences] 4 - Neck and Arm Pain: Tissue Sites and Mechanism 5 - Mechanisms of Pain in the Neck and from the Neck [Trauma * Trauma from Tension * Trauma from Posture] 6 - Subluxations of the Cervical Spine: The Whiplash Syndromes [Evaluation of the Mechanical Insult to the Cervical Spine * The Whiplash Injury: History and Physical Examination * Acute Mild Injury * Acute Severe Hyperextension Injury * Hyperflexion Injuries * Posttraumatic Headache * Posttraumatic Vertigo * Acute Central Spinal Cord Injury] 7 - Cervical Disk Disease in the Production of Pain and Disability [Neurogenic Radicular Pain * Extruded Nucleus Pulposus * Localization of Root Level by Clinical Examination * Root Level Summary * Treatment of the Cervical Herniated Disk * Conservative Nonsurgical Treatment of the Herniated Cervical Disk] 8 - Spondylosis: Degenerative Disk Disease [Osteophytosis] 9 - Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy (CSM) [Symptoms of CSM * Prognosis * Examination * Laboratory Confirmation * Treatment * Conservative Treatment] 10 - Differential Diagnosis of Neck, Arm and Hand Pain [Anterior Scalene Syndrome * Treatment of TOS * Claviculocostal Syndrome * Pectoralis Minor Syndrome * Scapulocostal Syndrome [Treatment] * Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Syndromes * Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome * Myofascial Pain Syndrome * Temporomandibular Pain and Dysfunction Syndrome * Pericapsulitus Shoulder Pain * Carpal Tunnel Syndrome * Brachial Plexus Neuritis * Shoulder-Hand-Finger Syndrome]