COCA News September 2008

COCA News Sept 08

In this Issue

Presidents Page

Editorial - Disc Degeneration: Nature versus Nurture - Stan Innes

Feature - At Work Surgery: Enhanced primary care update - John Kron

Special Feature - National Conference

• Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy Overview
  
• Beyond Musculoskeletal Medicine

News Update - Cochrane Collaboration Updates

• Low level laser therapy for low back pain
  
• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for low back pain: An updated Cochrane review
  
• Lumbar supports for the prevention and treatment of low-back pain
  
• Exercise and fibromylagia: A systematic review
  
• Stretching to reduce work-related musculoskeletal disorders: A systematic review

Book Reviews

• Osteopathic Medicine Recall
  
  • Authors: Andrew D Moiser & Dai Kohara
• Functional Neurology for Practitioners of Manual Therapy
  
  • Author: R Beck

Abstracts

• Physical therapy for acute low back pain: Associations with subsequent healthcare costs
  
• Motor control learning in chronic low back pain
  
• Subacromial impingement in patients with whiplash injury to the cervical spine
  
• Satisfaction with low back pain care
  
• Prolonged conservative care versus early surgery in patients with sciatica caused by lumbar disc herniation: Two year results of a randomized controlled trial
  
• Predictors of favourable outcome in patients treated by chiropractors for neck pain
  
• Maintenance care in chiropractic what do we know?
  
• A comparison between chiropractic management and pain clinic management for chronic low back pain in a national health service outpatient clinic.