Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

by Nortin M. Hadler

Book Overview

Nortin M. Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. Hadler terms the low back pain that everyone suffers at one time or another "regional back pain." In this book, he addresses the history and treatment of the ailment with the healthy skepticism that has become his trademark, taking the "Hadlerian" approach to backaches...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807833487
• ISBN13: 9780807833483
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"