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Casebook of Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Including Virtual Reality

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Authors:
  1. David Ip
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  • Highlights the uses of the computer in the field of orthopedic surgery
  • Highlights the increasing importance of virtual reality in orthopedics
  • Emphasis on newer concepts of the emerging importance of tele-rehabilitation especially in reaching out for patients in rural areas, and new paradigm shift in other fields of orthopedics like osteoporosis
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Section I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. New Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry Machines (iDXA) and Vertebral Fracture Assessment (VFA)

      Pages 3-9

    3. Hyper-gravity Stimulation Therapy

      Pages 11-15

    4. Lady Having Difficulty in Controlling the Computer Mouse

      Pages 17-20

    5. Whiplash-associated Neck Disabilities

      Pages 21-29

    6. Sizable Cartilage Defect in a Professional Footballer

      Pages 31-35

    7. Functional Knee Complaints in a Child with Cerebral Palsy

      Pages 37-40

    8. Hamstrings Injuries in a Professional Sprinter

      Pages 41-48

    9. Was it Simply Tachycardia or Something More Sinister?

      Pages 49-51

    10. A Lady with Intractable Heel Pain

      Pages 53-57

    11. Hip Swelling after Combined TBI and SCI

      Pages 59-65

    12. Consultation for a Third Opinion on Bone Health

      Pages 67-70

    13. Was It Really Another Case of “Tennis Elbow”?

      Pages 71-73

    14. A Patient Requesting an “Oxford Uni” for his knee OA

      Pages 75-78

    15. Bisphosphonates and Peri-prosthetic Osteolysis

      Pages 79-83

    16. A Young Engineer with Disabling Sciatic Pain

      Pages 85-91

    17. The “Wonder Drug” Glucosamine

      Pages 93-97

    18. Hyaluronan for Knee OA, Facts Vs. Myths

      Pages 99-101

    19. High Heels Woes

      Pages 103-109
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About this book

As the name implies, this “casebook” contains a series of clinical cases on various topics in orthopedic rehabilitation that the author encountered over his 23 years of practice ranging from the extremely common co- ditions like knee arthritis, to newer technologies evolved in the recent years including the use of smart materials in orthopedics, hypergravity stimulation therapy, and virtual reality. Many of us must have encountered difcult real life hurdles to - habilitation in real clinical practice in which patients have difculty in coming back for rehabilitation either because they live very far away, or they do not really have adequate time, or they simply only agree for home-based rehabilitation for various reasons. In these case scenarios, no matter how good a “protocol” one has on hand, it will be difcult to achieve the expected result. When the author was still young, he made the common mistake of accepting lesser outcomes from these patients saying to myself that it is a question of compliance. However, with large strides in computer engineering, even rural district patients can have acceptable rehabilitation as long as they have a telephone line and the right computer hardware and sofware and input-output devices to - fect tele-rehabilitation via the aid of virtual reality rather than just rel- y ing on video conferencing alone.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Casebook of Orthopedic Rehabilitation

  • Book Subtitle: Including Virtual Reality

  • Authors: David Ip

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74427-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-74426-9Published: 06 December 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-74427-6Published: 08 December 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 330

  • Topics: Orthopedics, Surgical Orthopedics, Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Medicine, Physiotherapy, Nursing

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