Neck and Arm Pain

By Rene Cailliet

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 each condition is related to the abnormal mechanism causing the pain or disability. Specific and practical suggestions for treatment help to correct or alter the abnormality discovered from the history and physical examination. Details on the individual books follow.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803616090
• ISBN13: 9780803616097
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Davis Company, F. A.
• 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]