Connective-Tissue Manipulations
2.3 Connective-Tissue Manipulations Elizabeth A. Holey Basics The pelvis is more than a system of bones, joints, and muscles. Its purpose and function depend on a complex interrelationship between the…
The Nervous System and Motor Learning
1.2 The Nervous System and Motor Learning Darcy Umphred Introduction Therapists throughout the world are constantly asked to examine, evaluate, and intervene with individuals who present large variations in movement…
Manual Physiotherapy Techniques for Pelvic Floor Disorders
2 Treatment Techniques 2.1 Manual Physiotherapy Techniques for Pelvic Floor Disorders Claudia Brown Manual techniques are among the most basic of the treatment techniques available to physiotherapists in their approach…
Psychosocial Influences
1.7 Psychosocial Influences Rik H. W. van Lunsen Introduction Patients with medically unexplained and chronic pelvic, genital, gastrointestinal, sexual, gynecological, and urological pain syndromes in many cases suffer increasingly because…
Spinal Injections
CHAPTER 23 Spinal Injections Christopher W. Huston, Curtis W. Slipman, Michael B. Furman, Syed Hasan, Richard Derby INTRODUCTION A variety of spinal injections are currently utilized in the diagnosis and…
Cervical Radicular Pain: An Algorithmic Methodology
CHAPTER 57 Cervical Radicular Pain: An Algorithmic Methodology Zacharia Isaac, Curtis W. Slipman Employing an algorithmic methodology for the evaluation of cervical radicular pain has numerous clinical benefits. It simultaneously…
Cervical Myelopathy
CHAPTER 50 Cervical Myelopathy Yoshiharu Kawaguchi, Björn Rydevik Cervical myelopathy implies spinal cord dysfunction in the cervical spine. The etiologies are numerous and these are divided into extrinsic and intrinsic…
Technique of Radiofrequency Denervation
CHAPTER 24 Technique of Radiofrequency Denervation Sara Haspeslagh, Maarten Van Kleef INTRODUCTION History The use of electrical current to create lesions for the treatment of pain began in 1931, when…
Surgical Decompression for Spinal Stenosis
CHAPTER 87 Surgical Decompression for Spinal Stenosis Franco Postacchini, G. Cinotti, R. Postacchini DEFINITION Lumbar spinal stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of the osteoligamentous vertebral canal and/or the intervertebral foramina,…
