It may have once been known as Disease of King’s, but gout is a growing problem for ordinary people around the world. This book brings together mul...

Hip replacement as well as hip arthroplasty, is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant. Such joint replace...

This holistic approach to arthritis and the management of chronic pain is a sincere effort to help people in the field of complementary therapies. ...

Degenerative disc disease is a significant component of spine disorders and lower back pain that now afflicts nearly one third of the adult populat...

Knee injuries are common occurrences that affect the young active population and can lead to subsequent long term joint degeneration. This book pro...

Kyphosis is an abnormal increased forward angulation of the spine which results in a minimal to severe spinal deformity producing a slouching postu...

Cure and manipulate neck pain; learn accurate neck exercises; use simple homoropathic remedies; eat a diet to fight the disease.

Sufficient levels of muscle strength, defined as the maximal force an individual is capable of exerting during a voluntary contraction, is a critic...

Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD) are one of the leading classes of health effects and can be caused by various factors, work related and non-work re...

This book is a simple case-by-case approach to the many different types of orthopaedic fractures. The book is being written for residents, registra...

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The continuous technological development now allow to use many new ultrasound applications, such as colour and power Doppler technique, the elastos...

Preface Elastosonography is an ultrasound (US)-based method of recent acquisition that aims to discriminate the different degree of elasticity prop...

Myasthenia gravis is a complex subject, multidisciplinary and challenging in terms of its clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary aspects. This is e...

Osteoblasts are highly specialised mesenchymal cells that are mainly responsible for the formation and maintenance of the skeletal architecture. Th...

Osteoporosis is a disease of bone that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone micr...

Osteoporosis is a skeletal disorder characterized by low bone mass and the microdeterioration of bony tissue. In this book, Chapter One reviews the...

There has been a shift in the delivery of trauma and orthopaedic services from the specialised to the sub-specialised, while being coupled with a g...

It is only recently that the orthopaedic world has begun to turn its attention to traumatic pathology of the posterior cruciate ligament. This liga...

Rheumatism: From the Advent of Experimental Science to the Impact of Bacteriology follows Rheumatism: Its History from Paleo-pathology to the Adven...

Beginning with paleo-pathologic evidence of diseases in ancient Egypt that now are considered rheumatologic, the history of the development of beli...

Hamstring injuries are very common in a variety of sports requiring repeated acceleration, deceleration, sprinting, or in kicking activities. Hamst...

Scoliosis is a lateral spinal deformity often coupled with vertebral rotation with most of the cases presenting as idiopathic. In this book, the au...

The Upper Limb Committee of ESSKA was created in 2007. The goal of this committee is to promote the knowledge of Upper Limb Surgery. Among the acti...