All About Bone: An Owner's Manual - Softcover

Siegel MD, Irwin M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888799161 ISBN 13: 9781888799163

Publisher: Demos Health, 1998

Synopsis

Bone is one of the most interesting and unique tissues of the human body. All About Bone: An Owner's Manual tells the intelligent lay reader everything that he or she might want to know about the musculoskeletal system. Chapters cover such diverse topics as osteoporosis, arthritis, fractures, soft tissue injuries, sports medicine, posture, scoliosis, problems of the low back and neck, the knee, the foot, and the hand. There are lists and tables of instructional material, and the text is illustrated with diagrams. A handy glossary is appended. State-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment methods are described in simple terms. Most chapters end with answers to commonly asked questions.

This book was written in response to the many questions patients have asked Dr. Siegel about bone during the course of his orthopedic practice. Some people wanted to know about a specific disease of bone or joint, such as osteoporosis or arthritis. Others asked about injuries, such as fractures or sprains. Still others were curious about how bones metabolize, grow, or mend.

This very practical book reviews such subjects as exercise, back and neck care, athletic injuries, foot care, fractures, posture, and much more. It will teach you how to keep your bones and joints healthy and functioning at top form. All About Bone is a comfortable exposition of everything the reader might want to know or need to know about this most important part of your body. All About Bone provides under a single cover an easily read and understood collation of material available from numerous books, articles, and other reference sources.

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About this title

About the Author:

Along with teaching at Rush-Presbyterian--St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, Irwin M. Siegel focuses his practice on the orthopaedic management of neuromuscular disease. He has lectured both nationally and internationally on the subject of muscular dystrophy and is a national vice-president and medical consultant for the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America.

From Booklist:

Orthopedic surgeon and teacher Siegel combines both aspects of his career in a popular account of what bone is, what it does, and how it goes wrong that will help patients and inform those who simply want, as Siegel says, to bone up on an interesting subject. After describing how bone is formed, Siegel writes about osteoporosis, fractures, and other common diseases and injuries. He then turns to various portions of the skeletal system, showing how they work, what problems can result, and how those can be treated. Each chapter ends with a series of questions and answers--not simple, little nothings to fill space, but, rather, stimulating questions that have to be answered in some depth, thereby reinforcing the preceding material as well as making readers do some thinking. Siegel discusses various treatments, including exercise and improving posture, nondogmatically, and he brings in enough history and anecdotes to liven things up: does the typical reader know, for example, why ministering angels have no knees? Read and learn. William Beatty

About this edition

• Publisher: Demos Health
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1888799161
• ISBN 13: 9781888799163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206