How a physician understands, interacts, and communicates with a patient with musculoskeletal low back pain will have a powerful impact on the course of care and outcome, regardless of the diagnosis. The authors of the new second edition of Low Back Pain provide a unique and valuable perspective on the non-surgical management of this potentially disabling condition.

Pub. Date: November 2007
ISBN: 978-1-883595-34-0
Format: Paperback, 360 pages. 

Completely revised, this new edition has been condensed into a single, hardcover, volume. Less basic science and more emphasis on practical guidelines useful to the industrial ergonomist and occupational health specialist. Concise and straightforward presentation of information, data, and how-to guidelines for implementing solutions to human factors and ergonomics problems in industry. This edition also features case studies, glossary and index.

Chapter headings include:
• Ergonomics Design Philosophy
• Evaluation of Job Demands
• Workplace Design
• Equipment Design
• Human Reliability and Information Transfer
• Work Design
• Manual Handling in Occupational Tasks
• Environment

Pub. Date: 2004
ISBN: 0-471-41863-3
Format: Hardcover 

State-of-the-art papers and reports on the discussions and conclusions of a symposium sponsored by the member agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Environmental Health Policy Committees Subcommittee on Risk Communication and Education, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP). Participants included a broad cross-section of more than 25 researchers and practitioners from government, academia, management, labor, and the environmental movement who are actively involved in science-based public communications.

Pub. Date: 1998
ISBN: 1-883595-20-7
Format: Paperback, 197 pages. 

THIS EDITION NOW OUT OF PRINT - SEE LINK BELOW FOR THE LATEST EDITION

A new edition for this book is now available. Please follow the included link to be directed to the latest edition. Thank you.

Low Back Pain: An Evidence-Based, Biopsychosocial Model for Clinical Management, Second Edition

Pub. Date: 2001
ISBN: 1-883595-34-7
Format: Paperback, 350 pages. 

Written in non-technical language, this is a resources that will assist health professionals, workers and employers in better understanding the types of work patterns that have potential to cause various cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) and to heighten awareness of the ergonomic interventions that can be adopted to reduce these problems in the workplace.
1988 paperback, 151 pages. 

A new edition for this book has been released. Please follow the included link to be directed to the latest edition. Thank you.

The Occupational Ergonomics Handbook, Second Edition
 

OUT OF PRINT This book provides an overview of the concepts and models of disablement and the major US and Canadian disability systems. Particular attention has been paid to the definitions and terminologies inherent to each system and to the evaluating and reporting requirements each system poses to the disability examiner.

Pub. Date: 2000
Format: Hardcover. 325 pages. 

Pub. Date: 1999
Format: Hardcover, 263 pages. 

Pub. Date: 1997
Format: Hardcover, 556 pages 

OUT OF PRINT Pub. Date: 1998
Format: Hardcover