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Research and Markets: Osteoarthritis: Visual Guide for Clinicians - 2013DUBLIN --(Business Wire)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/mvdz8n/osteoarthritis) has announced the addition of the "Osteoarthritis: Visual Guide for Clinicians" book to their offering. Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disorder, requiring significant attention from rheumatologists, pain specialists and GPs. Compiled by two distinguished authors, this illustrated guide outlines essentials of diagnosis and provides management guidelines along with updates on therapy. Benefits: - Instructive exploration of diagnosis and management of disease to aid practising clinicians and trainee doctors - Topic-focused, highly illustrated ith succinct text - provides collection of original images for clinician's desktop - Up to date training tool for whole clinical team Readership: - Rheumatologists - Pain specialists - Primary Care doctors - Trainee doctors Key Topics Covered: Abbreviations 1 Background to Osteoarthritis What is osteoarthritis Epidemiology of osteoarthritis Mortality and co-morbidity in osteoarthritis Subsets of osteoarthritis Aetiology and pathogenesis Patient presentation 2 Osteoarthritis at Different Sites Knee Hip Hand and wrist Spine Shoulder Foot and ankle Elbow Jaw 3 Diagnosis and Therapy Investigations for osteoarthritis Principles of management Preventing osteoarthritis Education and information Exercise Reduction of adverse mechanical factors Pharmacological therapy Surgery Drug induced disease modification in osteoarthritis Index Author Edited by: A Jones University of Nottingham and Nottingham City Hospital M Doherty, Academic Rheumatology, Nottingham City Hospital For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/mvdz8n/osteoarthritis |
