Take Back Your Back is a comprehensive, user friendly guide to preventing, reversing, and managing all the different kinds of back pain from one of the top orthopedic doctors and pain specialists in the field today using the latest techniques and medical research available. Readers get the latest information on surgical and non surgical approaches as well as what guidelines to follow in regards to hotly debated treatment options like spinal fusion. For each condition and procedure, readers learn what to expect in the hospital, at home during recovery, in the doctor's office during follow up care, and what they can do at home to prevent relapses. Pictures and diagrams make complex concepts understandable while checklists, self assessments, and appendices make the book a tool that readers will reference again and again during their care.