Essential Orthopaedics (Paperback)

Salient Features
* Most chapters begin with a brief review of relevant anatomy to help students to refresh what they had learn t so far.
* While discussing treatment of a condition, a brief mention of principles is made first, followed by the various methods and their indications.
* Simple line diagrams have been used to supplement the text.
* Self-explanatory flow-charts are used in order to develop a concept in decision-making.
* Tables are used to present the text matter in a concentrated form and allow review at a glance.
* Information on instruments and implants that are commonly used in orthopedics are provided as an appendix.
* Section on “Orthopedic Terminology” helps to review at glance, the meaning of different terms

Table of Contents
1. Orthopedic Trauma: Introduction
2. Anatomy of Bone and Fracture Healing
3. Treatment of Fractures: General Principles
4. Splints and Tractions
5. Recent Advances in the Treatment of Fractures
6. Approach to a Patient with Limb Injury
7. Complications of Fractures
8. Injury to Joints: Dislocation and Subluxation
9. Fractures in Children
10. Peripheral Nerve Injuries
11. Deformities and Their Management
12. Treatment of Orthopedic Disorders: A General Review
13. Injuries Around the Shoulder,Fracture Humerus
14. Injuries Around the Elbow
15. Injuries of the Forearm and Wrist
16. Hand Injuries
17. Pelvic Fractures
18. Injuries Around the Hip
19. Fracture Shaft of Femur
20. Injuries Around the Knee
21. Injuries to the Leg, Ankle and Foot
22. Infections of Bones and Joints
23. Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints
24. Infections of the Hand
25. Congenital Talipes Equino Varus (CTEV)
26. Congenital Dislocation of the Hip and Other Malformations
27. Poliomyelitis and Other Neuro-muscular Disorders
28. Bone Tumours
29. Prolapsed Inter-vertebral Disc
30. Approach to a Patient with Back Pain
31. Spinal Injuries
32. Traumatic Paraplegia
33. Scoliosis and Other Spinal Deformities
34. Arthritis and Related Diseases
35. De-generative Disorders
36. Affections of the Soft Tissues
37. Metabolic Bone Diseases
38. Miscellaneous Affections of the Bone
39. Miscellaneous Regional Diseases
40. Amputations, Prosthetics and Orthotics
41. Sports Medicine and Arthroscopic Surgery
42. Joint Replacement Surgery
Annexes
Index