Loren Fishman, M.D., and Carol Ardman

Back Pain

How to Relieve Low Back Pain and Sciatica

"This book is by far the best one I have read about back pain...a user-friendly, positive, helpful book on babck pain that I will certainly recommend to all my patients." - C. B. Lewis, Ph.D.

Dr. Loren Fishman, a distinguished clinician and a trailblazer in the treatment of sciatica, believes there's only one road to relief: patients must become partners with their doctors in naming the cause of their pain and in making treatment decisions.
Based on the latest research and on Dr. Fishman's fifteen years of experience in treating patients successfully, Back Pain is filled with pain-saving advice and instructional facts:

so many adults suffer bouts of back pain tha many doctors consider them normal occurences, like a cold or flu
more than four days of bed rest can make a back ache worse
patients who choose chiropractors visit them twice as often as those who choose medical doctors
more than 25 percent of people who go to orthopedic surgeons have referred themselves
the initial treatment any doctor is likely to prescribe is aspirin
sciatica is one of the three major causes of back pain

Dr. Loren Fishman is a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation. He is director of the Flushing Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and an assistant professor of rehabilitation at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. New York magazine has named him one of the best doctors in the New York metro area. He and Carol Ardman live in New York City.

1999 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-31961-X / 5 1/2" X 8 1/4" / 288 pages / HEALTH