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Book Review: Back and Neck Pain: The Facts

Book Review: Back and Neck Pain: The Facts DECEMBER 1999 VOL 17 (2) proved correct: the nocifensor fibres are now known management guidelines and reviews of clinical as C fibres. effectiveness for a range of treatments: orthodox and One of the best remembered aspects of Sir complementary. Thomas's work which is still of relevance to This book will be of great value to patients wishing acupuncture was his analysis in the 1920s of the to know more about their neck and back pain and, triple response, and it was he who first inferred its I suspect, of more than a passing interest to association with the release of histamine. clinicians. It can be warmly recommended. He also wrote on muscle pain induced by ischaemia and postulated the presence of a pain chemical which he labelled "Factor P". He went on Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind and in 1933, together with Pickering and Rothschild, to Spirit in the Face of Cancer investigate the double pain response of the skin to David Simon needle prick, successfully predicting the presence of Hardback, Pages: 275, Price £19.99 slower conducting pain fibres within peripheral John Wiley and Sons (1999) nerves. ISBN 0 471 29577 9 For anyone interested in the history http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acupuncture in Medicine SAGE

Book Review: Back and Neck Pain: The Facts

Acupuncture in Medicine , Volume 17 (2): 4 – Dec 1, 1999
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© 1999 British Medical Acupuncutre Society
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0964-5284
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1759-9873
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10.1136/aim.17.2.156
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DECEMBER 1999 VOL 17 (2) proved correct: the nocifensor fibres are now known management guidelines and reviews of clinical as C fibres. effectiveness for a range of treatments: orthodox and One of the best remembered aspects of Sir complementary. Thomas's work which is still of relevance to This book will be of great value to patients wishing acupuncture was his analysis in the 1920s of the to know more about their neck and back pain and, triple response, and it was he who first inferred its I suspect, of more than a passing interest to association with the release of histamine. clinicians. It can be warmly recommended. He also wrote on muscle pain induced by ischaemia and postulated the presence of a pain chemical which he labelled "Factor P". He went on Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind and in 1933, together with Pickering and Rothschild, to Spirit in the Face of Cancer investigate the double pain response of the skin to David Simon needle prick, successfully predicting the presence of Hardback, Pages: 275, Price £19.99 slower conducting pain fibres within peripheral John Wiley and Sons (1999) nerves. ISBN 0 471 29577 9 For anyone interested in the history

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