Low back pain: Some real answers
Abstract
Low back pain: Some real answers Low Back Pain: Some Real Answers , Brian J. Sweetman, TFM Publishing Ltd., Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK, 2005, pp. 152, 25.00, paperback (ISBN 1-903378-41-0). This book is not a thorough review on the cause, diagnosis and treatment of back pain. It does not provide an overview of the vexing subject of back pain. Its limited, though rather complex, approach assumes a thorough familiarity of the subject by the reader. The main body of the text introduces a raft of both new and familiar diagnostic markers and tests for low back pain. These include: 1) Contrabend OCONC - up to two points are scored if the pain induced is on the opposite side to the direction of lumbar movement; 2) Contralateral OCON - up to five points are scored if pain induced on tests hurts opposite to the side of rest pain; 3) STUCK - leg fails to apparently lengthen when internally or externally rotated. This battery of tests was then subject to cluster analysis and a number of categories of low back pain diagnosis were developed as a result of the findings. These include facet joint pattern, rotation back strain pattern, disc patterns