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Author:   Luigi Tesio
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:  

9783031785368

ISBN 10:   3031785363
Pages:   113
Publication Date:   17 January 2026
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Observing the Patient.- 1 Low Back Pain and Contradictions.- 2 The Flexion-Type Patient: Low Back Pain, Lumbosciatica, Lumbocruralgia.- 3 The Extension-Type Patient: typical clinical picture.- Part 2 The Basis of Sciatic Pain.- 4 Neurology of Sciatic Pain.- 5 The Missing Link: Epidural Venous Stasis .- Part 3 Explaining the Contradictions.- 6 Explaining the (few) different clinical pictures.- 7 Mysteries Explained.- Part 4 An Integrated Pathogenetic Model and Some Special Cases.- 8 The compressive-venous-inflammatory model.- 9 Cases that are compatible with the CoVin model.- 10 Cases at the limit or outside the CoVin model.- Part 5 Macro-Rationale of Non-Surgical Therapy.- 11 Pain therapies: why they are not the first choice.- 12 Therapies with exercise and manual, physical, instrumental, or pharmacological therapies.- 13 Reflections on Conservative Therapy.- Appendix: When things don't add up.

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Luigi Tesio, MD, is the Director of the Neurorehabilitation Sciences, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Research Hospital (IRCCS), in Milano-Italy. Besides, he is a former full professor of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Milan and now an Honorary Professor. His main research fields are 1) neuromechanical correlations in balance and gait, 2) neuromechanical correlations in voluntary movement, and 3) statistics and outcome measurement in disability studies.

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