AM:STARs Musculoskeletal Disorders
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AM:STARs Musculoskeletal Disorders

Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, Vol. 18, No. 1

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

AM:STARs Musculoskeletal Disorders

Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, Vol. 18, No. 1

About this book

 Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews helps you stay up-to-date in key areas of current clinical practice of adolescent medicine. Topics in Musculoskeletal Disorders include “Musculoskeletal Diagnosis in Adolescents,” “An Introduction to Physical Therapy Modalities,” “Metabolic Bone Disease in Adolescents: Recognition, Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention,” “Chronic Arthritis in Adolescence,” “Diagnosis and Management of Bone Malignancy in Adolescence,” “Osteomyelitis in Adolescents,” “Overuse Injuries in Adolescents,” “Scoliosis and Kyphosis: Diagnosis and Management,” “Diagnosis and Management of Back Pain in Adolescents,” “Hip Disorders in the Adolescent,” “Foot Problems in the Adolescent,” “Anterior Knee Pain in Adolescents and Young Adults,” and “Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.”

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. ADOLESCENT MEDICINE: STATE OF THE ART REVIEWS
  3. Copyright © 2007 American Academy of Pediatrics
  4. Editorial Board
  5. Contributors
  6. Contents
  7. Preface: Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Adolescent
  8. Musculoskeletal Diagnosis in Adolescents
  9. Table 4 - Causes of musculoskeletal complaints in adolescents
  10. Conclusions
  11. References
  12. An Introduction to Physical Therapy Modalities
  13. Metabolic Bone Disease in Adolescents: Recognition, Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention
  14. Chronic Arthritis in Adolescence
  15. Normal bone formation
  16. Table 1 - Regulators of cellular bone function
  17. Disorders of bone metabolism
  18. Rickets and osteomalacia
  19. Box 1. Markers of bone formation and markers of bone resorption
  20. Prevention
  21. Treatment
  22. Box 2. Causes of rickets or osteomalacia
  23. Table 2 - Clinical and radiologic features of rickets/osteomalacia
  24. Table 3 Biochemical profile in common forms of rickets
  25. Other forms of rickets
  26. Osteopenia and osteoporosis
  27. Evaluation
  28. Box 3. Causes of osteopenia & osteoporosis (excluding rickets / osteomalacia)
  29. Treatment
  30. Prevention
  31. Osteogenesis imperfecta
  32. Box 4. Common types of OI
  33. Evaluation
  34. Treatment
  35. Renal osteodystrophy
  36. Recognition
  37. Treatment and prevention
  38. Osteopetrosis/osteosclerosis
  39. Recognition
  40. Evaluation
  41. Box 5. Osteopetrosis: 3 main clinical forms
  42. Treatment
  43. Glucocorticoids
  44. Prevention and treatment
  45. Antiseizure drugs
  46. Chemotherapeutic drugs
  47. Anticoagulants
  48. Diuretics
  49. Others
  50. Acknowledgments
  51. References
  52. Chronic Arthritis in Adolescence
  53. Juvenile arthritis
  54. Infection-associated chronic arthritis
  55. Diagnosis and Management of Bone Malignancy in Adolescence
  56. Osteomyelitis in Adolescents
  57. Overuse Injuries in Adolescents
  58. Scoliosis and Kyphosis in Adolescents: Diagnosis and Management
  59. Diagnosis and Management of Back Pain in Adolescents
  60. Hip Disorders in the Adolescent
  61. Foot Problems in the Adolescent
  62. Anterior Knee-Pain Syndrome
  63. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: Reflections From a Clinician
  64. Differential diagnosis - Confusion with fibromyalgia
  65. Other differential diagnoses
  66. Personal characteristics of patients with RSD
  67. Physical examination
  68. Laboratory evaluation of patients with RSD
  69. Management - Physical therapy
  70. Pharmacologic therapy
  71. Psychological therapy
  72. Alternative therapies
  73. Prevention
  74. Conclusions
  75. References
  76. Index
  77. Back Cover