Empower Yourself!Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient, a survivor, or loved one of someone suffering from a spine disorder, this book offers help. The only text available to provide both the doctor's and patient's views, Questions amp Answers About Spine Disorders, provides practical, authoritative answers to of the most common questions asked. Written with commentary from actual patients, this is an invaluable resource for anyone struggling with the medical, physical, and emotional turmoil of this disease. This book includes sections on: The healthy spine Spine tumors Spinal cord tumors Spine trauma and fractures Spine degenerative disease (disc herniation and canal narrowing) Scoliosis Spine surgery Spine surgery-minimally invasive Spine infections Pediatric spine diseases Pediatric scoliosis Pediatric spine surgery Non-surgical spine procedures (injections) Spine rehabilitation exercises

Rahul Jandial, MD, PhD, is a neurosurgeon and scientist with the University of California, San Diego Medical Center and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, California. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Danielle – also a physician and scientist – and their three sons, Zain, Kai, and Ronak.

Henry E. Aryan, MD, is a neurosurgeon who completed his fellowship in Complex Spinal Reconstruction and Neurospinal Oncology from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He maintains an academic affiliation with UCSF as well as a private practice in Fresno, California, where he lives with his journalist wife and their two children.