The Head and Neck: Theory and Practice

by Roger Kerry, Barbara Cagnie

Overview

Musculoskeletal neck and head pain is a one of the highest health burdens faced globally. Management of people with this pain is complex, multi-factorial, and challenging. Scientific evidence continues to grow in this area but can often be confusing or contradictory. This multi-contributed compendium is a much-needed resource for all healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators treating neck and head dysfunction.
Taking a holistic and patient-centred approach, this vital, interdisciplinary book discusses the background of these dysfunctions and reviews specific conditions of the neck and head. It also includes evidence-based clinical assessment and management, clinical reasoning, and is supplemented with patient stories and supporting resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805010609
Publisher:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date:	10/21/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528

About the Author

Professor Roger Kerry is head of Physiotherapy Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has 27 years of clinical and research experience with people with head and neck pain and is a leading global academic on adverse events of neck pain interventions. Roger is the co-author of IFOMPT Framework for Vascular Pathologies of the Neck Risk Assessment. He lives in Nottingham, UK.
Professor Barbara Cagnie is the Head of Education in Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy at Ghent University, Belgium. She has over 20 years of experience in research, teaching and clinical practice in the rehabilitation of patients with neck pain. She has delivered courses on an international scale and is the author of three books on neck pain disorders.

Editorial Reviews

Musculoskeletal head and neck pain continues to rank among the highest global health burdens, presenting significant challenges for clinicians and researchers alike. Roger Kerry and Barbara Cagnie have brought together experts within the field to create a book that embraces the real world challenges of managing musculoskeletal head and neck pain - it balances the demands of clinical skills, contemporary evidence and the need to be truly patient-centred care.

Laura Finucane FMACP FCSP

Here is a timely, insightful, and accessible guide that combines powerful patient stories from across the globe, beautifully integrated with sophisticated understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and disorders of the cervical spine. Every clinician who handles patients with such health issues should read this book. This comes as a useful clinical guide that will help bridge the gaps we see across the globe in the management of patients with head and neck related pathologies. I would highly recommend that it be used as a key textbook for teaching clinicians, doctors , physios , orthopedic surgeons and other specialised medical professionals.

Otieno Martin Ong'wen