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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 in seeking treatment / Richard A. Deyo, MD.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deyo, Richard A., author.
- Series:
- Culture and politics of health care work
- The culture and politics of health care work
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Backache--Treatment.
- Backache.
- Back--Diseases--Treatment.
- Back.
- Back Pain--therapy.
- Back--abnormalities.
- Back--pathology.
- Back--Diseases.
- Medical Subjects:
- Back Pain--therapy.
- Back--abnormalities.
- Back--pathology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 212 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Back pain nation
- Even the best and brightest
- What's wrong? What's not? Can we tell the difference?
- Painkillers: easy solutions sometimes aren't
- Painkillers and the marketing of pain
- Pain management, now that's money
- Stabbed in the back
- Surgical gadgets and the explosion of fusion surgery
- The pointed search for relief: injections, ablations, and blocks, oh my!
- Why would you get better after useless therapy?
- Manipulating the pain: chiropractic and other alternative treatments
- Nobody takes it seriously!
- Boot camp
- Amplifying your voice
- Some policy implications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-202) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780801454554
- 0801454557
- Publisher Number:
- 99969497737
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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