Back Pain: How to Relieve Low Back Pain and Sciatica

Dr. Loren Fishman, a distinguished clinician and a trailblazer in the treatment of sciatica, believes there's only one road to relief: patients must become partners with their doctors in naming the cause of their pain and in making treatment decisions. Based on the latest research and on Dr. Fishman's fifteen years of experience in treating patients successfully, Back Pain is filled with pain-saving advice and instructional facts: so many adults suffer bouts of back pain that many doctors consider them normal occurrences; like a cold or flu more than four days of bed rest can make a back ache worse; patients who choose chiropractors visit them twice as often as those who choose medical doctors more than 25 percent of people who go to orthopedic surgeons have referred themselves; the initial treatment any doctor is likely to prescribe is aspirin; sciatica is one of the three major causes of back pain.

Author: Loren M. Fishman, Carol Ardman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780393319613

About the Author
Fishman, Loren: - Loren Fishman, MD, is a physiatrist and a professor at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He lives in New York City.Ardman, Carol: - Carol Ardman is a freelance writer who has coauthored three previous books with Dr. Fishman. She lives in New York City.Fishman, Loren: - Loren Fishman, MD, is a professor at Columbia Medical School and the medical director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A pioneer in integrative medicine and author of four books highlighting the medical potential of yoga, he lives in New York City.