Literature on Cervical and Thoracic Spine

Hi to all colleagues around the globe.....Its my first thread here so lets come straight to the point...The last weeks i am searching all around sources from internet, discussing with other physios about some GOOD books on Cervical and Thoracic Spine.....To be more specific, i am not looking for books about THERAPY of those parts of the body (The McKenzie's book is just one of the kind on that!!)...i am interesting in books which analyse mainly the CLINICAL and FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY of neck and thorax....I ve some recommendations and i want your comment for these books, but as u will see some of them has also therapeutic interventions inside,except from biomechanical analysis....Well here we go:)
1)Boyling and Jull: Grieves modern manual therapy, the vertebral column.
2)Oliver and Middletich: Functional Anatomy of the spine
3)Giles and Singer: The clinical anatomy of Thoracic spine pain
4)Giles: the clinical anatomy and management of cervical spine pain

Thanks for any respondence

come on guys...any suggestion on those books????
i wanna know where to spent my cash;)

I get along famously with just my mckenzie and brukner and kahn. So I can't say that I collect or read textbooks. I'm a big fan of Jull though and anything she does I'd be keen on. Sorry I can't recommend anything.

u mean the book "CLINICAL SPORTS MEDICINE" right??? U right about this one because it has very good reviews about treatments in tendinopathies as i know...of course it covers many aspects in other injuries and rehabilitation regimes....
Maybe i will start by Grieves modern manual therapy....Many older and more experienced colleagues have also recommended this one for a complete review on spine!

Clinical Sports med is a physio's bible. Grieves is a legend - and has been around a long time - hense why seniors would suggest it. I have no problem with that, i'm confident his books are good.

i think its wiser for all physios to invest foirst of all in studying lots of books and then spent money on so called "seminars-courses" which many of them are useless and pointless...

Fair point. I tend start with a good textbook and then hope to remain current with peer discussion and current research. But it is often easy to fall behind on the current research. It's good if your in a community that advocated evidence based practice and are happy to share the latest article they've come across if it is good. So anytime you find something awesome I say post it on this website for all to see. :)

Hi quorthon

Boyling and Jull: Grieves modern manual therapy, the vertebral column; Giles and Singer: The clinical anatomy of Thoracic spine pain and Giles: the clinical anatomy and management of cervical spine pain these are excellent books and if you have them they would cover the ground well. Especially the Giles and Singer books have great background reading. I am not familiar with Oliver and Middletich: Functional Anatomy of the spine.

One suggestion I would make is if you already own these may be the next step is to rely more on the scientific literature - key biomechanics and anatomy journals for instance. manual therapy journals often also have good articles on applied anatomy which is highly relevant to clinicians. Making a habit of reading these is likely to keep you much more abreast once you have digested some good texts. If you subscribe to a biomedical educational institution library you can download often all you ever want and at a lower cost then continually stocking up on new textbooks - which are by definition out of date by the time they are published.


However if you particularly like textbooks then make a point of buying edited texts rather than single author texts. A good edited text will draw on experts in a particular field.

during the last 2 years when i start practicing on private i may have studied over 300 articles(when on the contrary before that time interval i was not so keen on studying articles...)...almost every day i read something new, and u right that some of them maybe more valuable than just a single textbook...The only reason why i need an EXPERT book on biomechanics is to make quick references...Of course i do that easily when i check my articles-archive that i got...
But to be more specific the book from Giles and Singer was published in 1998-2000 and the one from Oliver and Middletich was republished in 2005...I can assume that maybe it more up-to-date, though it is just an speculation...