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J Rehabil Med 2019; 51: 236 Management of Neck Pain Disorders. A Research- informed Approach, 1 st edition, Gwendolen Jull, Deborah Falla, Julia Treleaven and Shaun O’Leary, pp. 270, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-7020-7477-6. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2008 the authors, who are all physiotherapists by training and well-known researchers in the field, pu- blished the book “Whiplash, Headache and Neck Pain. Research-based Directions for Physical Therapies”. The present volume is based on this text, but has been completely rewritten. The book consists of 19 chapters divided into 4 sections: introduction, clinical sciences, clinical assess- ment, and clinical management. The clinical sciences section describes the pathophysiological background of: (i) joint movement, (ii) neuromuscular dysfunc­ tion, (iii) sensorimotor control disturbances, and (iv) nerve tissue in neck pain disorders, while the clinical management section deals mainly with physical ma- nagement in these 4 areas. In the section on clinical assessment, patient history and physical examination is covered thoroughly. All sections and chapters are very well structured, and the information is easy to find under each heading. There are plenty of up-to-date references in each chapter, and the illustrations and photographs are very helpful to understand the content. The title of the book is “Management of Neck Pain Disorders”. The emphasis of the text is on management from a physical therapist’s viewpoint, with less focus on medical, psychological and social perspectives. Evidence-based exercises for the neck in neuromuscu- lar dysfunction and sensorimotor control disturbances are very well described. It would have been valuable also to have the authors’ views on other physiotherapeutic interventions, such as body awareness and relaxation training for the rest of the body, as well as general muscular strengthe- ning activity and aerobic training to decrease pain and increase physical functioning, which, together with psychological and social measures, are usually included in multimodal interdisciplinary rehabilitation programmes for patients with neck pain disorders. This book is highly recommended to all physiothera- pists treating patients with neck pain disorders. Various parts of the book would also be valuable for other members of the interdisciplinary multimodal team. Ola Svensson, MD, PhD Department of Public Health Sciences and Clinical Sciences, Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Danderyd University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden  E-mail: [email protected] BOOK REVIEW This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license. www.medicaljournals.se/jrm doi: 10.2340/16501977-2526 Journal Compilation © 2019 Foundation of Rehabilitation Information. ISSN 1650-1977