The detail presented in this text will not only serve as a reference, but will also allow the reader to accurately reproduce measurement techniques, thus enhancing inter-physician communication, research of the spine, and improvement of patient care.In the course of evaluating the patient with spinal disease, a myriad of measurements need to be performed before determining the diagnosis and the severity of the disease process. This text explicitly outlines the measurement of the sp...

The SMART Approach to Spine Clinical Research is a must-have guide for spine care professionals seeking to make a meaningful contribution to the scientific literature and advance their careers by publishing high-quality clinical research.Planning, conducting, and publishing the results of your clinical research can be a long and arduous journey. The SMART Approach to Spine Clinical Research presents and explains the many interrelated components essential to spine ...

A pocket-sized handbook for all the major outcomes instrumentsWhat outcomes are important to patients and clinicians?How is a specific instrument scored?Has it undergone reliability testing?In what population was it validated, and how did it perform?This pocket-sized handbook, covering all the major musculoskeletal outcomes instruments in use today, answers these questions and more. Key concepts like reliability, validity, a...

Care of spinal conditions has become increasingly complex and confusing. Classification systems can help in understanding the subject matter at hand, but have exploded in numbers and complexity. Attempts at extracting classifications of spinal disorders are cumbersome and require careful study of numerous reference books without achieving a comprehensive overview in the end. This one of a kind reference text summarizes over 185 spine classification or severity easures with standardized art...

Spine Outcomes Measures and Instruments evaluates and summarizes more than 100 outcomes instruments for the spine and its associated diseases. The book addresses important questions such as:What outcomes are important to patients and clinicians?Which questions are used to build a specific outcomes instrument?How is a specific instrument scored?Is it completed by the clinician or the patient?Has the instrument u...

Title: Beyond Life: The Ghost Chronicles Beyond Life: The Ghost Chronicles is a book of fictional tales that allows the reader to gather the perspectve of what ghosts may experience in their afterlife. All the tales are loosely based on experiences by both authors with ghosts during their paranormal research over many, many years. Every tale wrote about in these fictional tales of ghosts and their afterlife are imagined in a "what if" and "could this be true" situation of strange and excit...

A young teenage girl becomes smitten with a young man from her high school. Excited that he has agreed to meet with her one night at their high school but he never shows up.Tired and in tears she begins the walk back to her home when she is confronted by three boys from her high school who she only knows as popular boys she had heard of only by name.The kidnap her to a isolated area where she is raped and murdered. She finds her self back in her own room alone awaiting the ar...