Foreword by Daniel K. Resnick, MD

Here for your review, we present Chapter 2, "Patient Selection in Lumbar Arthrodesis for Low Back Pain.”  It describes concepts of spinal instability, non-operative therapy and pre-operative management of the patient with low back pain, psychological factors impacting disability and pathology, general diagnostic tests, and seven low back pain conditions that may call for lumbar arthrodesis.  

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Low back pain is among the four most common problems presented to a physician and is the most common cause of workers’ compensation disability claims.  In the last two decades tremendous technological advances have been made with regards to the physician’s ability to diagnose and treat low back pain.  Surgical Management of Low Back Pain is designed to provide an overview of some of the new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities as well as an anatomic and physiologic rationale for their application. 

To learn more about the management of low back pain . . .

If you are a physician and want to learn more, Surgical Management of Low Back Pain will provide an overview of:

• Spinal cord stimulation techniques
• Indications for and limitations of facet injections
• Radiographic evaluation of the patient with low back pain
• Magnetic resonance imaging in back pain
• Surgical indications, technique and complication avoidance and management for anterior and posterior interbody fusion
• Surgical indications, technique and complication avoidance and management strategies for instrumented and non-instrumented posterolateral fusion

Hardcover
164 pages
Published: April 2001
ISBN:  1-879284-78-2
AANS Product #782

About the Editors

Daniel K. Resnick, MD, is Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison, Wisconsin.  He also serves as a Major in the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps.  He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Princeton University and earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  He also holds a Masters degree in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh.  He completed a spine residency at the University of New Mexico Hospital and neurosurgical residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.  Dr. Resnick is an active researcher and author.  His work has been published in such journals as the Journal of Neurosurgery, Surgical Neurology, Neurosurgery, The Spine Journal, and Molecular Diagnosis. Hew also serves as associate editor of the Spine Journal.

Regis W. Haid, Jr., MD, is Associate Professor in the Emory Clinic of Emory University School of Medicine.  He received much of his training at West Virginia University, where he interned in the Department of Surgery and completed his residency in the Department of Neurosurgery.  He also served a fellowship in spinal disorders at the University of Florida College of Medicine.  Dr. Haid has also served in the Medical Corps of the United States Air Force.  A much published author, Dr. Haid has authored two full texts on spinal stabilization techniques and  49 scientific articles to peer-reviewed journals.  He currently serves on the board of the Journal of Spinal Disorders.

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Founded in 1931 as the Harvey Cushing Society, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) is a scientific and educational association with over 6,500 members worldwide. The AANS is dedicated to advancing the specialty of neurological surgery in order to provide the highest quality of neurosurgical care to the public. All Active members of the AANS are board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, or the Mexican Council of Neurological Surgery, A.C. Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disorders that affect the spinal column, spinal cord, brain, nervous system and peripheral nerves.