The Neck Pain Handbook: Your Guide in Understanding and Treating Neck Pain » (Original)

In an increasingly sedentary society, where it is often unnecessary to get up from one's desk for long periods of time, neck pain has grown to epidemic proportions. This handbook explains the causes, simple steps that may be effective at home, when it’s time to see a doctor, and the range of available and effective treatments. Written by two physicians with extensive experience managing neck and joint pain, the book details how to set up a workplace to prevent injury, a simple, effective 10-minute program of stretches and strength training, the importance of good posture, medical and surgical options when necessary, and more. Perhaps most importantly, The Neck Pain Handbook discusses how the reader can prevent neck pain, so that once it's gone, it stays gone.

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Reviewer:Riad Barmada, MD(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description:This small softcover booklet provides general information on neck pain symptoms, causes, and treatments.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide a source of information to patients with neck pain to help them understand prevention and treatment.
Audience:The audience is the general population and, in particular, patients with neck pain.
Features:The book begins with an outline of posture in the workplace as a cause of pain and describes exercises and posture modification for prevention and treatment. The remaining chapters are dedicated to various treatment modalities, mainly nonsurgical.
Assessment:This book will serve as a good source of education for patients with neck pain.

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

About the Authors xiii

I Getting to Know Your Neck 1

1 Neck Pain: A New Epidemic 3

2 Learn to Appreciate Your Neck 13

3 When Good Necks Go Bad 23

II Taking Care of Your Neck 29

4 Posture and the Neck-Friendly Workplace 31

5 Do It Yourself: Simple and Effective Exercises for Your Neck 45

6 When Home Exercise Isn't Enough: Time to See the Doctor! 59

7 Prescriptions for Conservative Care 71

III Medical Solutions 77

8 Advanced Imaging Studies and Trigger Point Injections 79

9 Medications for Neck Pain 87

10 X-Ray-Guided Injections and Surgery 93

IV Alternative and Complementary Solutions 103

11 Supplements 105

12 Acupuncture and Manual Manipulation 113

13 Meditation 119

14 Concluding Thoughts-Putting It All Together 123

Index 125