Product Description
Lower-Limb Prosthetics and Orthotics: Clinical Concepts is a comprehensive overview of lower-limb prosthetics and orthotics, covering normal and pathological gait, lower-limb biomechanics, clinical applications, as well as prosthetic and orthotic designs and components.
Joan E. Edelstein and Alex Moroz have written Lower-Limb Prosthetics and Orthotics with the clinician’s perspective in mind. Clinical management is incorporated throughout the text, including basic surgical concepts, postoperative management, preprosthetic care, and training in the use of devices. Additionally, this text incorporates unique features relevant to physicians such as prescription writing and prosthetic and orthotic construction and modification, as well as the latest research regarding energy consumption and long-term utilization of prostheses.
Chapters Include:
- Orthotics in neuromuscular diseases
- Orthotics in pediatrics
- Functional expectations
- Gait and activities training
- Transtibial and transfemoral prostheses and components
- Transtibial and transfemoral biomechanics, evaluation, and gait analysis
- Disarticulations and bilateral amputations
With over 150 line drawings and photographs to supplement the text, Lower-Limb Prosthetics and Orthotics: Clinical Concepts is ideal for clinicians in the fields of physical medicine and rehabilitation, orthopedics, vascular surgery, physical therapy, and occupational therapy.
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Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Contributing Authors
Preface
Chapter 1: Normal Gait
Chapter 2: Early Management
Richard A. Frieden, MD
Chapter 3: Transtibial Prostheses
Chapter 4: Transtibial Biomechanics
Chapter 5: Transtibial Static Evaluation
Chapter 6: Transtibial Gait Analysis
Chapter 7: Transfemoral Prostheses
Chapter 8: Transfemoral Biomechanics
Chapter 9: Transfemoral Static Evaluation
Chapter 10: Transfemoral Gait Analysis
Chapter 11: Partial Foot Amputations and Prostheses
Chapter 12: Knee and Hip Disarticulations and Prostheses
Chapter 13: Bilateral Amputations and Prostheses
Chapter 14: Prosthetic Gait and Activities Training
Chapter 15: Lifelong Management of Older Patients
Richard A. Frieden, MD
Chapter 16: Prosthetic Functional Outcomes
Chapter 17: Orthotic Principles
Chapter 18: Shoes and Foot Orthoses
Chapter 19: Ankle-Foot Orthoses
Chapter 20: Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthoses
Chapter 21: Hip-Knee-Ankle-Foot and Higher Orthoses
Chapter 22: Orthotic Static Evaluation
Chapter 23: Pathological Gait Analysis
Chapter 24: Orthotic Functional Outcomes
Chapter 25: Orthotics in Management of Musculoskeletal and Neuromuscular Disorders
Chapter 26: Pediatric Prosthetics and Orthotics
Joan T. Gold, MD and Joan E. Edelstein, MA, PT, FISPO, CPed
Financial Disclosures
Index
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Reviews
"The strength of this text lies in its truly comprehensible coverage of lower-limb considerations in P&O, with a focus on breadth rather than depth. The authors’ ability to condense this material into a text less than 200 pages long is admirable. Further, the text of the book is well supported by clear and current photographs and illustrations."
— Phil Stevens, Med, CPO, FAAOP
American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetists.
"This is an excellent resource for clinicians in training. I would definitely have enjoyed using it during my residency training. It is also a good reference for practicing clinicians."
— Leslie K. Rydberg, MD
(Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), Doody Enterprises, Inc.
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