A Health Care Professional's Guide to Spinal Rehabilitation Book

	Contributors	vii
	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
Section I.	Introduction: Foundation Principles	1
1.	The Role of Active Exercise in the Management of Musculoskeletal Spinal Dysfunction: A Review of the Literature	3
2.	Database and Outcome Management	15
3.	The Integration of Passive and Active Care	39
4.	High Versus Low Technology	73
5.	Patient Education and Activation	85
6.	Emergency Principles and Applications for the Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility	95
Section II.	Evaluation Principles and Applications	123
7.	Advanced Issues Associated with the Focused Orthopedic Evaluation	125
8.	Evaluating the Patient Using the McKenzie Approach	147
9.	The Functional Capacity Evaluation: Foundation Principles and Applications	181
10.	Advanced Issues of Functional Testing and Patient Outcomes Assessment	197
11.	The Psychosocial Profile of the Chronic Back Patient	231
12.	Applications of Radiological Findings for Exercise Prescription	245
13.	Cardiac Evaluation of the Spinal Rehabilitation Patient	281
Section III.	Computer-Aided Performance Testing and Rehabilitation	291
14.	Triaxial Dynamometry	293
15.	Isometric Dynamometry	339
16.	Three-Dimensional Spinal Kinematics	351
17.	Isokinetic Dynamometry	369
Section IV.	Principles of Manual Treatment Methods in the Rehabilitation of Spinal Dysfunction	399
18.	The Integration of Spinal Manual Adjustive Therapies with Exercise	401
19.	Mechanically-Assisted Spinal Mobilization: Principles and Applications	417
20.	Soft-Tissue Assessment and Treatment Principles for Spinal Dysfunction	443
Section V.	Exercise Methodology: Principles and Applications	453
21.	Exercise Physiology: Application in Rehabilitation	455
22.	Principles and Methods of Low Technology Exercise and Exercise Progression: Spinal Stabilization	467
23.	Aquatic Rehabilitation for Low Back Dysfunction	511
24.	Selecting Effective, Safe Exercise for Older Adults: Do's, Don'ts, and Maybe's Related to the Spine	541
25.	Motivation and Exercise Compliance Among Older Adults	555
	Index	569