Overview
- Practical, evidence-based text regarding adolescent bone health in primary care
- Clinical cases provide real-world application and highlight key concepts for practitioners
- Written by leaders in the field
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This comprehensive book thoroughly covers bone health in the adolescent, offering evidence-based guidance for clinical care in the primary care setting, and includes aspects of endocrinology, nutrition, radiology, sports medicine, and rehabilitation.
A Practical Approach to Adolescent Bone Health begins with an in-depth review of normal bone physiology, and explains how to optimize bone mass accrual in the healthy adolescent. The following chapters detail the importance of nutrition and physical activity to the skeletal system, while later chapters provide a bone-centric review of clinical history taking, the physical examination, laboratory assessment, and imaging to evaluate bone health. Final chapters delve into providing comprehensive care for specific conditions commonly found in the adolescent, including adolescents with multiple fractures, eating disorders, athletic involvement, chronic illness, various ambulatory limitations, and bone fragility. Clinical vignettes are woven into chapters throughout the book, providing real-world application and highlighting key concepts for practitioners.
A Practical Approach to Adolescent Bone Health is a unique resource,and ideal for the primary care clinician, including pediatricians, adolescent medicine specialists, and family medicine physicians, as well as endocrinologists, orthopedic surgeons, and any other practitioner working to guide adolescents towards optimal bone health.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah Pitts, MD
Divisions of Adolescent Medicine and of Endocrinology
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
USA
Catherine M. Gordon, MD, MSc
Division of Adolescent and Transition Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Practical Approach to Adolescent Bone Health
Book Subtitle: A Guide for the Primary Care Provider
Editors: Sarah Pitts, Catherine M. Gordon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72880-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72879-7Published: 20 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72880-3Published: 09 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 273
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour