Muscular Injuries in the Posterior Leg Assessment and Treatment By: J. Bryan Dixon Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9781489976499, 1489976493 eText ISBN: 9781489976512, 1489976515 Copyright year: 2016 Format: PDF Available from $ 89.00 USD SKU: 9781489976512 Taking a multidisciplinary approach to a common and often frustrating problem for athletes and those with an active lifestyle, this book is the first of its kind, addressing muscular injuries to the posterior leg using an in-depth and expansive style that is uniquely dedicated to ensuring all content is explicitly linked to the practical care of patients with calf pain. It is divided thematically into three sections. The first section covers underlying principles involved in these issues, including anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology of injury and neurophysiology of musculoskeletal pain. Clinical assessment techniques and imaging are covered in the second section. The third section on treatment is the most expansive, discussing acute, sub-acute and chronic posterior leg muscle injuries, as well as surgical management, rehabilitation techniques, complementary medicine and special populations. Overall, the book is designed to use muscular injuries of the posterior leg to as a means to understand the assessment and treatment of muscular injuries more broadly. Taken together, it is the consummate source for orthopedists, doctors in sports medicine, podiatrists, rehabilitation professionals and primary care physicians who treat muscular injuries in the posterior leg, though reader will gain a conceptual and practical framework for the assessment and treatment of muscular injuries in general. SKU: 9781489976499 Ebooks here: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/Muscular-Injuries-in-the-Posterior-Leg
