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Zusatztext 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. Klappentext Chronic back pain continues to be a major cause of distress, disability, work loss, and a huge cost to society. This book examines the risk factors and mechanisms involved in the transition from acute to chronic back pain. It integrates genetic, biomechanical, neurobiological, psychophysiological, psychosocial, and socieconomic risk factors. Zusammenfassung Chronic back pain has been and continues to be a major cause of distress (both to people with persistent pain and their significant others), disability, work loss, and a huge cost to society. Moreover, with the aging population, it is becoming even more prevalent and as a consequence is having an escalating impact upon the healthcare systems and society as a whole worldwide. A significant issue concerns understanding why, although the majority of people with acute back symptoms recover in a reasonable time, a significant minority evolve into patients with chronic pain and prolonged pain-related disability. Understanding the variables that contribute to chronicity could serve as a basis for early intervention to prevent the downward spiral. In the past 15 years, psychological and psychobiological mechanisms have been identified as important risk factors in back pain, leading to the development of early screending methods (Yellow Flag diagnostics) and new psychosocial interventions. These work by closely targeting treatment modalities to patients' needs. However, many aspects of how acute pain becomes chronic pain remain unexplained. Recent neurobiological work investigating genetic, neurophysiological, and biomechanical processes has uncovererd important mechanisms involved in chronic and acute back pain. From Acute to Chronic Back Pain examines the risk factors and mechanisms involved in the transition from acute to chronic back pain. It integrates genetic, biomechnanical neurobiological, psychophysiological, psychosocial, and socieconomic risk factors. Moreover, the text examines advances in treatment approaches based on evidence from published studies-ranging from prevention of disability to pharmacological, psychological, and rehabilitative strategies and methods.Broad in scope, and with contributions from leading authorities in their respective fields, this book is a valuable and comprehensive work for the many specialities involved with back pain - including those in the fields of clinical and health psychology, physiology, epidemiology, and pain. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. Mann...
