Overview
- Practical, user-friendly clinical guide to common problems and pathologies in the patellofemoral joint
- Divided into two major sections on patellofemoral pain and instability, covering etiology, diagnosis, and management strategies in both adults and youth, using outcomes-based approaches
- Discusses topics such as anterior knee pain, malalignment and overload syndromes, arthritis, acute patellar dislocation, recurrent instability and complications, as well as imaging strategies for the knee
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- Acute patellar dislocation
- Anterior knee pain
- Cartilage restoration
- Femoral osteotomy
- Malalignment
- Medial instability
- Medial overload
- MPFL reconstruction
- MPFL repair
- Knee arthroplasty
- Osteoarthritis
- Overload syndrome
- Patella fracture
- Patellofemoral instability
- Patellofemoral pain
- Osteochondritis dessicans
- Recurrent knee instability
- Soft tissue surgery
- Tendinopathy
- Trochleoplasty
About this book
Providing the most current research on these topics in a field that is rapidly changing and evolving, and explaining the treatments and their support in the current literature, Patellofemoral Pain and Instability is an up-to-date, straightforward resource for orthopedic surgeons and residents, sports medicine specialists, and any clinical professional treating conditions of the knee.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sabrina M. Strickland, MD, Hospital for Special Surgery, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Patellofemoral Pain and Instability
Book Subtitle: Etiology, Diagnosis and Management
Editors: Beth E. Shubin Stein, Sabrina M. Strickland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97640-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97639-6Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97640-2Published: 27 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 216
Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sports Medicine, Orthopedics