Overview
- Practical approach to diagnosing and treating the patient in pain
- Presents most accepted diagnostic tests and best treatment practices
- Easy-to-use guide for front-line physicians, residents, students, and other healthcare providers
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Table of contents (102 chapters)
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Upper Extremity
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About this book
Fulfilling the need for an easy-to-use resource on managing musculoskeletal disorders and sports injuries, this book provides differential diagnostic workups with recommended gold standard evaluations that lead to a simple and accurate diagnosis, followed by first-line treatment options. Â Organized by five sections - head and neck, upper extremity, lower extremity, abdomen/pelvis with trunk and chest, and cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral spine - chapters present a concise summary and move on to a description of the most common symptoms, etiology, epidemiology and/or common causes if traumatic in nature. Â The best and most accepted diagnostic tests are illustrated, along with recommended evidence-based medicine and what may be done based on community standards of care. Â Treatment options will be listed in order of the most conservative to the most aggressive.
This complete reference will provide primary care, physiatry, and ER physicians, residents, PA’sand students a simple and practical approach for clinical and academic use.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stuart B. Kahn, MD
Associate Professor Pain Medicine & Rehabilitation
Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Orthopedics
New York, NY, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Musculoskeletal Sports and Spine Disorders
Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Guide
Editors: Stuart B. Kahn, Rachel Yinfei Xu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50512-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50510-7Published: 20 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50512-1Published: 08 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 477
Number of Illustrations: 98 b/w illustrations, 127 illustrations in colour
Topics: Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Physiotherapy