The Little Ortho Book
eBook - ePub

The Little Ortho Book

The Bare Bones of Orthopedics

  1. 136 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Little Ortho Book

The Bare Bones of Orthopedics

About this book

The Little Ortho Book: The Bare Bones of Orthopedics is a pocket-sized, easy-to-understand introduction into the field of orthopedics. Written with the non-physician in mind, The Little Ortho Book provides the basics of orthopedics for residents, medical students, front office staff, and industry sales force.

Dr. Antonia Chen takes complicated orthopedic terms and conditions and explains them in ways that are understandable to all. By focusing on common orthopedic diagnoses and relevant anatomy, The Little Ortho Book: The Bare Bones of Orthopedics answers the questions that arise from orthopedic conditions in user-friendly language that is understandable to everyone.

Portable and handy and supplemented with images and diagrams, this conversational-style book packs a big punch!

What is Inside:
• Descriptions of joint biomechanics and bone and muscle composition
• Commonly performed exams are explained with a description of the condition being tested
• Sports injuries, fractures, arthritis, and orthopedic conditions in children
• Description of medications that are commonly prescribed in orthopedics
• Commonly performed orthopedic surgeries, including indications for surgery and descriptions of the procedures performed – all described in simplistic detail

The Little Ortho Book: The Bare Bones of Orthopedics is an easy-to-read resource for a wide variety of audiences who work in the orthopedic industry or with orthopedic patients, but isn't an orthopedic surgeon.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040138144
Subtopic
Orthopedics

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. About the Author
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter 1 Bones, Bones, Bones
  11. Chapter 2 Help! I Pulled a Muscle!
  12. Chapter 3 Joint Commission
  13. Chapter 4 Back to the Basics
  14. Chapter 5 Skin and Bones
  15. Chapter 6 Dry Bones
  16. Chapter 7 Bad to the Bone
  17. Chapter 8 Little Bones
  18. Chapter 9 Bones and Groans
  19. Chapter 10 Bone to Pick
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index