Watch Your Back!: How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less--And What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself i

by Richard A. Deyo

Book Overview

Over the past twenty years, treatment of back pain has become ever more expensive and intensive. Use of MRI scans, narcotic painkillers, injections, and invasive spine surgery have all grown by several hundred percent. In some areas of medicine, newer treatments have improved quality and duration of life, but as back pain is treated more aggressively, annual surveys of people with back pain report steadily worse impairments. In Watch Your Back!,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801453240
• ISBN13: 9780801453243
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher