Orthopedics

This textbook of orthopedics is intended to be an outline of evidence based general information in the subject for medical students, trainee surgeons, nurses, physiotherapists; however, it can also be useful for family medicine practitioners or rheumatologist. In the first 21 chapters basic knowledge of orthopedics will be discussed e.g. fracture healing of bones; examination of orthopedic patients; conservative and operative treatment; physiotherapy; dysplasias and developmental anomalies of the bones; neuromuscular and rheumatic diseases; tumors and tumor like conditions of bones etc. The following 9 chapters deal with regional orthopedics from the neck and shoulder region to the leg, ankle and foot. More than 100 drawings, 200 patient photographs, radiographs and other imaging pictures help to illustrate the characteristic features of orthopedic diseases.