Spinal Stabilization - The New Science of Back Pain, 2nd Ed. - Softcover

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Rick Jemmett, B.Sc., (PT), a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Physical Therapy program, has lived and practiced in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 1994. My clinical work as a physical therapist at Maritime Physiotherapy involves the diagnosis and treatment of people with various forms of neuromusculoskeletal pathology. Our facility treats a wide range of patients including people with sport and work related conditions. I have also lectured and taught courses for physiotherapists, physicians, kinesiologists and physiotherapy assistants across Canada and the United States through the Atlantic Manual Therapy Institute. My primary area of clinical interest centres on the rehabilitation and prevention of spinal and shoulder instability. Throughout my career I have maintained a keen interest in the basic sciences of anatomy and motor control. My research interests involve the neuromuscular aspects of spinal stability in both healthy and back-injured people. I have also had the good fortune to work with various athletes, both recreational and competitive, developing their sport specific conditioning programs. My own participation in sports currently includes playing golf, running and skiing along with an ongoing attempt to maintain a regular training regime, including spinal stabilization exercises. My personal sports injury history includes two dislocated shoulders, a dislocated IP joint (thanks to colleague Mike Ritchie for getting that back in place) an unstable lumbar spinal joint (again, thanks to Mike Ritchie for his expert assistance on this one), sacroiliac joint dysfunction, ITB friction syndrome, a golf-related stress fracture of a rib, a broken toe and occasional plantarfasciitis. This is mentioned only to reassure readers that physical therapists bang themselves up as frequently as you do, and that we do know what it is like to be injured and unable to participate in all life’s activities. The information presented in this book may have been developed in the scientific world, but it has been proven in the real world - I have witnessed the positive results both as a clinician and as a patient.