By Michael J. DePalma MD

ISpine is exclusive in its presentation of interventional backbone, using a disease-based or particular constitution damage version. professional clinicians take you thru the total gamut of painful backbone stipulations, detailing ancient good points, scientific presentation, diagnostic trying out, imaging reports, and the most recent remedy interventions. backbone biomechanics and ergonomic ideas also are coated to advertise ideas for decreasing backbone pressure and minimizing the chance of recurrent harm. Containing 1000s of fluoroscopic pictures and different illustrations, iSpine presents a pragmatic, procedural method of the analysis and therapy of painful backbone problems. The contributing nationwide and foreign authors are drawn from a number of specialties - together with physiatry, anesthesiology, radiology, biomechanical engineering, actual remedy, orthopedics, neurosurgery, inner drugs, and rheumatology - reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of outcomes-oriented interventional backbone care. iSpine belongs at the shelf of any clinician practising high-yield state of the art interventional backbone medication, utilizing the easiest on hand proof to appropriately diagnose, optimally deal with, and reduce the healthcare bills linked to those issues. positive factors of iSpine contain: Technical directions for acting approaches together with enormous quantities of fluoroscopic photographs and different illustrations Chapters speak about cutting edge new applied sciences and spinal functions, corresponding to intradiscal biologic brokers for degenerative lumbar discs and augmentation of pelvic insufficiency fractures serious research of the literature on interventional backbone care Chapters written through the world over well-known specialists

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