Preventing and actively treating back pain

Around 1.9 million people in Austria suffer from chronic back pain - it is very widespread and the second most common reason for sick leave. The most frequent causes of back or lower back discomfort are lack of exercise, negative stress, and degenerative changes such as wear and tear. However, there are also many other potential causes, so that back pain is often treated using interdisciplinary therapeutic approaches. Richard Crevenna, Head of MedUni Vienna's Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine, addresses this approach in his recently published guide. In this book, he is joined by a multi-professional team of authors to provide information about back pain that is based on the very latest scientific knowledge. The team of authors led by Richard Crevenna includes specialists in general medicine, orthopaedics and trauma surgery, physical medicine and general rehabilitation, internal medicine, occupational medicine, as well as physiotherapists, psychologists, occupational and organisational psychologists, clinical and health psychologists, psychotherapists, and sports scientists. Each of these areas plays a role in the assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, and reintegration of back pain sufferers.