Contents

Part I - Overview

1. Active care: its place in the management of spinal disorders
2. The role of muscles, joints, and the nervous system in painful conditions of the spine
3. Quality assurance: the scope of the spine problem and modern attempts to manage it
4. Putting the biopsychosocial model into practice

Part II - Basic science

5. Lumbar spine stability: mechanism of injury and restabilization
6. The sources of back pain

Part III - Assessment

7. Diagnostic triage in patients with spinal pain
8. Outcome assessment
9. Assessment of psychosocial risk factors of chronicity - "yellow flags"
10. Evaluation of muscular imbalance
11. Quantification of physical performance ability
12. Physical performance tests: an expanded model of assessment and outcome
13 Employment screening and functional capacity evaluation to determine safe return to work

Part IV - Acute care management

14. Active self-care: functional reactivation for spine pain patients
15. McKenzie spinal rehabilitation methods
16. Brügger methods for postural correction
17. Rehabilitation of breathing pattern disorders
18. Soft tissue manipulation
19. Manual resistance techniques
20. Neuromobilization techniques - evaluation and treatment of adverse neurodynamic tension
21 Manipulation techniques for key joints

Part V - Recovery care management (after 4 weeks)

22. Sensory motor stimulation
23. Facilitation of agonist-antagonist co-activation by reflex stimulation methods
24. Yoga-based training for spinal stability
25. Spinal segmental stabilization training
26. Functional stability training
27. Global muscle stabilization training - isotonic protocols
28. Weight training for back stability
29. Advanced stabilization training for performance enhancement
30. Nutritional considerations for inflammation and pain
31. A cognitive behavioral therapy program for spinal pain

Part VI - Practical application by region

32. An integrated approach to regional disorders
33. Managing common syndromes and finding the key link
34. Integrated approach to the lumbar spine
35. Integrated approach to the cervical spine

Part VII - Implementing the functional paradigm

36. The patient and the doctor
37. The role and safety of activity in the elderly
38. Role of non-operative spinal specialist in managing the spine patient
39. From guidelines to practice : what is the practitioner's role