Textbook of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rheumatology

This award-wining textbook for medical students covers orthopaedics, trauma and rheumatology, offering both core information regarding what the student needs to know about these subject areas and an extensive series of cases with questions and answers that illustrate the thinking behind common everyday practice. The book offers a common approach to history taking and physical examination, and relevant anatomy, highlighting the reasons for the different approaches within each specialty as required. A new chapter on Sports and Exercise Injury A new restructured chapter on fractures pulls together the text into a more logical presentation of the subject Additional text on sports injuries to children will be included A refocused chapter on the multi-professional team approach to the management of musculoskeletal disorders An update of the therapeutics in all chapters 50 new case studies included. Raashid Luqmani, DM, FRCP, FRCPEdin , Professor of Rheumatology, NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Oxford University, Oxford, UK ; James Robb, BSc(Hons), MD, FRCSEd, FRCSGlasg, FRCPEdin, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh; Senior Lecturer in Surgery, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK; Daniel Porter, BSc(Hons), MD, FRCS(Tr & Orth) , Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh and Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK and Benjamin Joseph, MBBS, MS Orth, MCh Orth, Professor of Orthopaedics and Head of Paediatric Orthopaedic Service, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka State, India