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Anatomical Basis of Low Back Pain.


Anatomical Basis of Low Back Pain

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. Baltimore, MD 21202, Williams & Wilkins, 1989, hardback, 197 pp, illus, $61.95

The author of this text is an Australian and a research fellow; he also is a chiropractor. He has written an innovative text describing his postgraduate doctoral studies on the lumbosacral lumbosacral /lum·bo·sa·cral/ (-sa´kral) pertaining to the loins and sacrum.

lum·bo·sa·cral (lmb
 spine. His investigations focus primarily on the zygapophyseal joints (paired diarthrodial articulations located between the vertebral arches) of L4 L4 - Level 4 (ISDN User Part)-5 and L5 L5 - Lagrange point 5 (stable gravitational point between two bodies)-S1.

The purpose of the investigations was to study both the clinical and anatomical aspects of the leg-length discrepancy of postural pos·tur·al (pschr-l)
adj.
 scoliosis. The author presents a detailed description of the gross dissection and histological preparations of osseous osseous /os·se·ous/ (os´e-us) of the nature or quality of bone; bony.

os·se·ous (s
 tissue and nerve tissue. He also presents a literature review that includes studies on leg-length discrepancy associated with low back pain and on methods of measuring leg length and the relationship between leg-length discrepancy and angle of curvature of postural scoliosis and the sacral sacral /sa·cral/ (sa´kral) pertaining to the sacrum.

sa·cral (skr
 base. The author reports the findings of his clinical studies of shoe raise therapy versus shoe raise and manipulation plus shoe raise therapy, but no statistical analyses were performed on the groups. He relates his anatomical findings about the structures of the zygapophyseal joints of L4-L5 and L5-S1 to structural changes caused by leg-length inequality.

Each chapter has a reference list. The text has appendixes that provide the reader with definitions and abbreviations and cover preparation of cadaveric spinal blocks of tissue sections and surgical material for histological examination. The text is sometimes redundant. The illustrations and roentgenograms roent·gen·o·gram (rntg-n-gr are excellent.

This book would be useful to researchers who wish to study the osseous tissue and nerve tissue of the spine. Physical therapy practitioners, osteopaths os·te·op·a·thist (st-p, chiropractors, and medical practitioners who are interested in leg-length discrepancy and its possible impact on structural changes in the lumbosacral spine and low back pain could use the text as a reference.

Donna Keefe Marzouk
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Author:Marzouk, Donna Keefe
Publication:Physical Therapy
Article Type:Book Review
Date:Aug 1, 1990
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