Articles in this issue include: "Low Back Pain: Health Care Dilemma, “Anatomic and Biomechanical Principles of the Lumbar Spine, “Diagnosis of Low Back Pain: Imaging and Electrodiagnostics, “Axial Low Back Pain: Disc, Posterior Element, Sacroiliac Joint as Pain Generators, “Radicular Pain, “Myofascial Pain and Referral Patterns, “Osteoporosis and Compression Fracture, “Exercise for Low Back Pain, “Pharmacologic Treatment for Low Back Pain, “Complementary and Alternative Medicine T...

Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this gui...