Main description:

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 work, provides ratings and critical evaluations of
pertinent strengths and weaknesses in a concise and systematic fashion and
provides help in:

• Studying spinal disease conditions


• Preparing informed treatment decisions


• Communicating individual patient disease severity


• Evaluating publications regarding treatment results and
  success


• Formulating spinal research projects


• Providing a scientific reference tool

The book is divided into two major systems

Disease severity:

• General disease severity


• Instability


• Osteoporosis


• Stenosis


• Spinal deformity


• Degenerative disorders


• Infection


• Tumor


• Heterotopic ossification

Trauma severity:

• General trauma scores


• Spinal cord injury


• Fracture classifications

All identified measures within each category are formally reviewed and displayed in a unique visually friendly manner containing:

• A one of a kind compendium of high quality diagrams for
  each severity measure or classification system with unrivaled specificity and
  detail


• The content of each measure and whether it incorporates
  the critically important ABCDs of disease severity including: an anatomical
  component, a biomechanical component, a clinical component, and the degree of severity component


• A summary of the measures validity, reliability, and
  predictive ability with corresponding patient populations


• An evaluation of each measure using our scoring
  criteria focusing on methodological rigor and clinical utility


• An overall score for each measure rating the instrument’s strength with respect to methodology and clinical utility