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This straightforward guide takes readers step by step through the causes, symptoms, and treatments for common injuries and chronic conditions of the knee. Explains what to do immediately after an injury to avoid more harm and discusses the benefits of rehab versus surgery. This book takes the reader step-by-step through the causes, symptoms, and treatments for common injuries and chronic conditions of the knee. It shows what to do immediately after an injury to the patient doesn't do any more harm. Also describes the benefits of rehab versus surgery, why more and more women are suffering knee injuries and how they can avoid them, and which alternative therapies may help reduce the pain of chronic knee conditions.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One: The Functioning Knee; Anatomy of the knee; Daily functioning of the healthy knee; Walking and irregular gaits; Jogging and running; Squatting, jumping, and other stressful movements; Lifestyle and the knee; Aging and the knee; Chapter Two: Understanding Knee Injuries; Traumatic knee injuries; Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury; Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) injury; Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) injury; Menisci injury (involving the cushioning tissue inside the joint); Twisting or hyperextension of the knee (such as in sports injuries); Dislocation of the patella; Ruptures in tendons and ligaments; Fractures; Repetitive knee injuries such as runner's knee, tendinitis, and bursitis; Chapter Three: Pathological Conditions and Syndromes of the Knee. Iliotibial Band Syndrome; Plica Syndrome; Osgood-Schlatter Disease; Osteochondritis Dissecans; Stress Fractures; Osteoarthritis; Rheumatoid Arthritis; Infectious Arthritis; Chrondomalacia patellae (softening of cartilage); Gout and inflammation of the tissues of the knee. Chapter Four: Examination and Diagnosis of the Painful Knee; How to best present your medical, lifestyle, and activity history to your doctor; Describing the symptoms of pain and malfunction; Observing the function of the knee; Movement and manipulation; Knee Aspiration (draining); Diagnostic tools: X-Ray, CT Scan, MRI, and arthroscopy; Chapter Five: Repairing the Injured Knee; The Rice protocol (rest, ice, compression, elevation); Knee Braces; Pain medications; Surgical options including meniscal repair and transplantation, reconstructive surgery, and cartilage transplantation; Arthroplasty; Chapter Six: Standard Treatments for the Injured Knee; Surgical and non-surgical protocols; Chapter Seven: Rehabilitating The Injured Knee; Orthotics including bracing, crutches and canes; Chapter Eight: Avoiding Knee Injury; Strengthening exercises to help prevent knee injury; Women and knee injury; Older adults and knee injury; Open Kinetic Chain Exercises; Closed Kinetic Chain Exercises; Chapter Nine: Alternative Healing and the Knee; Acupressure; Acupuncture; Ayurvedic medicine; Herbal medicine; Hypnotherapy. Magnetic field therapy; Naturopathy; Nutritional Supplements; Prolotherapy: rejuvenation of collagen; Reflexology; Glossary; Reading List

About the Author :
Marc Darrow, M.D., J.D., is the medical director of Joint Rehabilitation and Sports Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He is a Board Certified UCLA-trained Physiatrist and specializes in the field of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. In addition to practicing medicine with an emphasis on musculoskeletal injury, sports medicine & Prolo Therapy, Dr. Darrow has practiced law since 1973. Laura O'Hare has written several books, including The Power of Pyruvate (Keats, 1999), and also writes for stage, screen, and television.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780737305449
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Professional
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0737305444
  • Publisher Date: 06 Sep 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 215 gr


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