Overview
- Highly expanded edition with step-by-step surgical techniques
- Includes etiopathogenic bases and therapeutic implications
- Explores the new frontiers in evaluation and treatment
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This textbook provides an authoritative reference on one of the most problematic entities in the pathology of the knee. Throughout the text, esteemed international experts highlight their clinical insights for ensuring optimal non-surgical and surgical outcomes when treating anterior knee pain and patellar instability. The chapters are revised with the latest updates and new chapters are featured focusing upon robotic-assisted patellofemoral replacement, predictive diagnostic models in anterior knee pain patients based on artificial intelligence, brain network functional connectivity in anterior knee pain patients, and many other hot topics in the field.
Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability, 3rd Edition is an essential, multi-disciplinary textbook for all levels of orthopedic surgeons, physiotherapists, radiologists, biologists, pathologists, and bioengineers, who wish to learn more about this complex pathology that affects both young and olderpatients.
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Table of contents (60 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Etiopathogenic Bases, Prevention and Therapeutic Implications
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Vicente Sanchis-Alfonso, M.D., Ph.D., is a prominent knee surgeon from Valencia, Spain. He is a member of the International Patellofemoral Study Group and is highly respected for his contribution to the field of patellofemoral pathology. He has extensive research work on patellofemoral joint disorders in both anterior knee pain and patellar instability. He has over 100 publications and has been an editor of 7 books on knee surgery. In 2011, he published the second edition of the book Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability with Springer London. Since 2002, he has given over 100 lectures on knee surgery at major international and national conferences. Since 2016, he has had a special interest in finite element technology to optimize surgical treatment of lateral patellar instability. Currently, he is studying resting state connectivity in patients with anterior knee pain and the value of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treating selective cases ofanterior knee pain.
Dr. Sanchis-Alfonso is internationally well-known for his expertise in anterior knee pain. He is reviewer of KSSTA (Official Clinical Journal of ESSKA), American Journal of Sports Medicine, The Journal of Knee Surgery, The Knee, Sports & Health, PLOS ONE, and Annals of Joint. As a referral orthopedic surgeon for patellofemoral conditions, he has extensive experience in revision surgery of the patellofemoral joint. He also participates in surgeon-to-surgeon programs on patellofemoral surgery. He received the Patellofemoral Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award during the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Annual Meeting in San Diego in 2017.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability
Editors: Vicente Sanchis-Alfonso
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09767-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09766-9Published: 19 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09769-0Published: 20 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09767-6Published: 18 March 2023
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 782
Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations, 432 illustrations in colour
Topics: Orthopedics