Functional Fracture Bracing

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. The Philosophy of Functional Fracture Bracing

   • Augusto Sarmiento, Loren L. Latta

   Pages 1-19

3. Fractures of the Tibia

   • Augusto Sarmiento, Loren L. Latta

   Pages 21-140

4. Fractures of the Humeral Diaphysis

   • Augusto Sarmiento, Loren L. Latta

   Pages 141-203

5. Isolated Ulnar Fractures

   • Augusto Sarmiento, Loren L. Latta

   Pages 205-230

6. An Overview of Pertinent Research

   • Augusto Sarmiento, Loren L. Latta

   Pages 231-277

7. Back Matter

   Pages 279-281

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At the writing of this book, the United States is in the midst of an intense public debate concerning a widely perceived need for reform of the Health Care Delivery System. The reform is primarily aimed at the provision of medical insurance to a large segment of the population currently deprived of that coverage and to the reduction of the escalating costs of medical care. Solutions to the existing problems have been elusive because the causes of the dilemma are multifactorial, complex, and diffucult to identify clearly. There is, however, general consensus that the use and abuse of technology has played a major role in the growing costs of medical care. The importance of fracture care in the overall financing of the health care reform is significant, since injuries to the musculoskeletal system are responsible for a very large percentage of the general expenditures in this area. The cost is not limited to hospitalization and professional services, but also impacts the economy with tempo­ rary or permanent interruption of individual productivity.

• Functional Fracture Bracing
• Tibia, Humerus and Ulna
• biomechanics
• care
• evaluation
• fracture
• patients
• philosophy
• research
• treatment

"This book is outstanding and must be one of the two most important written on the conservative treatment of fractures....All orthopaedic surgeons, from residents to senior practitioners, can benefit from reading this volume" Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Augusto Sarmiento

• University of Miami, Miami, USA

  Augusto Sarmiento

• Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Miami, USA

  Loren L. Latta

Policies and ethics