Focuses on topics such as: Pre-dislocation Syndrome of the Second Metatarsophalangeal Joint; Morton's Neuroma; Digital Surgery - Current Trends and Techniques; Metatarsalgia and Lesser Metatarsal Surgery; Brachymetatarsia and Associated Pathology; Lesser Metatarsal Fractures; and, Puncture Wounds and Soft Tissue Pathology of the Forefoot.
Provides students and clinicians with a guide to the information they require to underpin their clinical decision making. This book offers essential information for a modern Podiatric practice. It includes examination and diagnosis, aetiology, prognosis and management.
Looks at the treatment options for foot problems, how the appropriate selections should be made and how they should be incorporated into the management of the affected patient. This book covers 3 main sections such as: essential principles of managing foot disorders; methods for managing foot conditions; and management of specific client groups.
Focuses on the treatment of skin and soft tissue problems of the foot and ankle area using techniques borrowed from facial plastic surgery, hand reconstructive surgery and general soft tissue plastic surgery fields and modified to be used on the foot and ankle areas.
Illustrated with over 500 colour photographs, this atlas gives a pictorial account of major foot and ankle presentations. It highlights the salient diagnostic features and treatment options. It is suitable for practising and student podiatrists, to develop their diagnostic skills and increase their awareness of therapeutic choices.
Discusses lower limb examination and assessment. This book shows how to assess various parts of the lower limb, and evaluate various conditions. It is suitable for podiatry students and practitioners, as well as trainee general practitioners, medical students working in rheumatology, diabetology and orthopedics.
A textbook on diabetic foot problems. It includes global and socio-economic aspects of diabetes; a team approach; basic science of the foot (anatomy and biomechanics); clinical assessment and classification systems for diabetic foot problems; endocrine aspects; and, diabetic foot infections (clinical presentation and management).
Provides the student and practising podiatrist the information they need to understand when, how and what to inject. This text covers: changes in legislation; the range of injectable drugs available to the practitioner; and, information on nerve physiology, drug action, equipment, patient selection, and injection techniques.
More than just a collection of simple definitions, this pocket-reference guide is suitable for student podiatrists and practitioners. It covers anatomy, pathology, systemic disease, clinical diagnostic tests, treatment and management of foot problems and much more. It also includes tips, tables, line drawings, and photographs.
Covers such topics as: Foot and ankle locking plate technology; Advanced fixation for surgery in patients with diabetes mellitus; Advances in intramedullary nailing for the foot and ankle; Advances on external fixation for reconstructive and plastic foot and ankle surgery; and, Internal fixation 'beaming' techniques for the diabetic Charcot foot.
An exploration of the major types of electrophysical agents used in clinical practice, particularly human and also animal. It includes biophysics as well as clinical evidence and principles of application that enable clinicians to move away from traditional 'recipe-based' approaches and rely on their own clinical reasoning.
A guide to chiropractic adjustive techniques. It describes the basic principles needed to evaluate, select, and apply specific adjustive procedures. It features a review of chiropractic history, and includes descriptions of joint examination and adjustive techniques for the spine, pelvis and extremities. It is suitable for students and clinicians.
Includes topics such as: Instrumentation and Practical Aspects of Foot and Ankle Arthroscopy; Arthroscopic Treatment of Soft Tissue Lesions; Arthroscopic Treatment of Ankle Osteochondral Defects Arthroscopic Treatment of Anterior Ankle Impingement; and, Arthroscopic Ankle Arthrodesis; Arthroscopy of Smaller Joints in the Foot.
Presents the story of how one bone in your foot could be the real reason for pains throughout your whole body. This book offers information about why millions of people suffer everyday with aches and pains. It also offers hope to those who believed they would have to live with these problems forever.
Foot problems in people with diabetes are common, serious and difficult to treat. In this second edition of the award winning text (BMA Medical Book of the Year, 2004) the world-renowned authors provide a practical, clinically oriented guide to the diagnosis and management of the diabetic foot.