Asking a sports physician why he would review a book on physiotherapeutic management of low back pain is akin to asking a mountaineer why he climbed Mt Everest: because it is there! On a more serious note, an interest in the lumbopelvic region included me in the targeted audience (“Clinicians in the orthopaedic conservative-care community”), and I did find the book an interesting read.

It aimed to present a clinical model for the approach to a specific subset of patients with low back pain. This was done …