Take Back Your Back
Beth Murinson

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.

Dr. Beth Murinson is one of the top pain specialists in the country. She completed a residency in neurology at Yale University followed by fellowships in Clinical Neurophysiology and Peripheral Neurology at Johns Hopkins. Now an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Murinson directs Pain Education for the department of Neurology. Her clinical expertise is in painful conditions of the peripheral nervous system including peripheral neuropathy, neuropathic pain, and stiff-person syndrome.