NECK PAIN. MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT. David G. Borenstein, Sam W. Wiesel, and Scott D. Boden. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1996. $85.00, 562 pp.

This well written book, which is full of insights on neck pain, is a sequel to the authors' Low Back Pain. Medical Diagnosis and Comprehensive Management. Readers of the earlier volume will find many of the same approaches in the current one. All chapters were written by the same authors, so a major strength of the book is its uniformity of style, compared with that of a typical text with multiple authors or editors. The scope of the book is considerable; it begins with well illustrated chapters on anatomy and biomechanics, shifts to discussions of pain from the basic molecular and neurophysiological …