Table of Contents

Preface
Section I: Current developments in epidemiology
1: Blair H. Smith, Nicola Torrance, Gary J. Macfarlane: Epidemiology of back pain, from the laboratory to the bus stop: psychosocial risk factors, biological mechanisms and interventions in population-based research?
2: Kate M Dunn, Peter R Croft: Defining chronic pain by prognosis
Section II: Risk Factors of chronic back pain and disability: Biological Mechanisms
3: Julia Metzner and Irmgard Tegeder: Genetic factors modulating chronic back pain
4: Hermann Handwerker: Peripheral and central sensitization as risk factors of low back pain
5: John McBeth and Andrea Power: Dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and associated stress axes in the development of chronic LBP
6: Sandra Kamping and Herta Flor: Central imaging of pain and the process of chronicity
7: Arne May and A. Vania Apkarian: Structural brain changes in patients with chronic back pain
8: Kati Thieme and Richard H. Gracely: The Psychophysiology of Chronic Back Pain Patients
Section III: Risk Factors of chronic back pain and disability: Biomechanical Mechanisms
9: A.F. Mannion and D. O'Riordan: Electromyographically-determined Muscular Fatigue in Low Back Pain
10: Jeanine Verbunt, Robert Smeets, and Harriet Wittink: Unmasking the Deconditioning Paradigm for Chronic Low Back Pain Patients.
Section IV: Risk Factors of chronic back pain and disability: Sociodemographic and psychosocial mechanisms
11: Chris J. Main, Nicholas A.S. Kendall, and Monika Hasenbring: Screening of Psychological Risk Factors (Yellow Flags) for Chronic Back Pain and Disability
12: R. Nicholas Carleton and Gordon J.G. Asmundson: Dispositional fear, anxiety sensitivity, and hypervigilence
13: Michael JL Sullivan and Marc O. Martel: Processes Underlying the Relation between Catastrophizing and Chronic Pain: Implications for Intervention
14: Linda Vancleef, Ida Flink, and Steven Linton: Fear-avoidance as a risk factor for the development of chronic back pain and disability
15: Monika I. Hasenbring, Dirk Hallner, and Adina C. Rusu: Endurance?related pain responses in the development of chronic back pain
16: Adina C Rusu and Tamar Pincus: Cognitive processing and self-pain enmeshment in chronic back pain
17: Annmarie Cano and Laura Leong: Significant others in the chronicity of pain and disability
18: James P. Robinson and John D. Loeser: Effects of Workers' Compensation Systems on Recovery from Disabling Injuries
19: William S. Shaw Glenn S. Pransky and Chris J. Main: Work-related risk factors for transition to chronic back pain and disability
Section V: Practitioner's role in the process of care
20: James Rainville, Glenn Pransky, Sarah Gibson, and Pradeep Suri: The Physician as Disability Advisor for Back Pain Patients
21: Tamar Pincus, Rita Santos, and Steven Vogel: The attitudes and beliefs of clinicians treating back pain: Do they affect patients' outcome?
Section VI: Clinical Implications - New approaches to Diagnostics and Treatment
22: Maurits van Tulder and Bart Koes: International guidelines for the diagnostics and treatment of acute, sub-acute and chronic back pain
Section VII: Clinical approaches for patients with acute and subacute LBP
23: Chris J. Main and Kim Burton: Engaging patients in their own care for back care: the role of education and advice in the prevention of chronic pain and disability
24: Robert D. Kerns, Mark P. Jensen, and Warren R. Nielson: Motivational Issues in Pain Management
25: Kay Brune and Bertold Renner: Pharmacotherapy of Low Back Pain
Section VIII: Subgroup-specific approaches for patients at risk for or with chronic pain
26: Adina C. Rusu, Katja Boersma, and Dennis C. Turk: Reviewing the concept of subgroups in sub-acute and chronic pain and the potential of customizing treatments
27: Monika I. Hasenbring, Bernhard W. Klasen, Adina C. Rusu: Risk factor based cognitive behavioral therapy for acute and subacute back pain
Section IX: Clinical approaches for patients with established pain and disability
28: JB Staal, CG Maher, and WS Shaw: Physical exercise interventions and low back pain
29: Lance M. McCracken: Contextual cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain (including back pain)
30: MK Nicholasa and RJEM Smeets: Rehabilitation programs to prevent severely disabling chronic back pain

Reviews

...a very stimulating and thought-provoking book making a wide range of new research findings accessible and useable.
*Occupational Medicine, Nov 2012*

This book would be useful to any clinician wanting a current reference book that consolidates the latest evidence-based research from a variety of specialties and fields on LBP.
*Physical Therapy Reviews, August 2013*

This book is a valuable guide to those working in the fields of clinical and health psychology, and in physiology, epidemiology, and pain management. You will find almost 600 pages of useful knowledge, with discussions and graphics presented visually in charts, diagrams, sketches, and tables.
* Nano Khilnani *