A Practical Approach to Orthopaedic Medicine

by Atkins, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9780702031748
• ISBN10: 0702031747
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-23
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science

Summary

In the new edition of this popular multidisciplinary text, Elaine Atkins, Jill Kerr and Emily Goodlad continue to advance the field of orthopaedic medicine. Always inspired by the work of Dr James Cyriax, this third edition - renamed A Practical Approach to Orthopaedic Medicine - updates techniques and incorporates recent research discoveries into the text. The introductory chapters deal with the principles of orthopaedic medicine, with the following chapters taking the clinician through the practice of orthopaedic medicine joint by joint.

Table of Contents

About the authors	p. vii
Foreword to the third edition	p. ix
Foreword to the second edition	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Dedication	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Principles of orthopaedic medicine
Introduction to Section 1	p. 1
Clinical reasoning in orthopaedic Medicine	p. 3
Soft tissues of the musculoskeletal System	p. 25
Connective tissue inflammation, repair and remodelling	p. 41
Orthopaedic medicine treatment techniques	p. 51
Practice of orthopaedic medicine
Introduction to Section 2	p. 85
The shoulder	p. 87
The elbow	p. 125
The wrist and hand	p. 153
The cervical spine	p. 181
The thoracic spine	p. 225
The hip	p. 247
The knee	p. 283
The ankle and foot	p. 321
The lumbar spine	p. 363
The sacroiliac joint	p. 411
	p. 435
	p. 437
	p. 439
Glossary	p. 441
Index	p. 443
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