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General Orthopedics, An Issue of Physician Assistant Clinics. The Clinics: Internal Medicine Volume 9-1

  • Book

  • November 2023
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5917354
In this issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest editor and PA Kara-Ann Valentine brings her considerable expertise to the topic of General Orthopedics. Top experts in the field discuss the interprofessional collaborations involved in the treatment and management of orthopedic conditions; review common orthopedic conditions in a head-to-toe approach, discussing presentation, diagnosis, work-up, treatment and management; and cover the evolution of prosthetics and possible future of the specialty.- Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including pearls for ordering and interpreting imaging in orthopedics; orthopedic pearls in the pediatric patient; the evolution of prosthetics; orthopedic emergencies; hip pain and what it could mean; and more.- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on general orthopedics, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

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Table of Contents

The Dream Team of Orthopedics
Pearls for Ordering and Interpreting Imaging in Orthopedics
The Upper Extremity: From Shoulder to Wrist
The Back from Top to Bottom: Differentials for Back Pain
Hip Pain: What Could it Mean?
Osteoarthritis of the Knee
Foot and Ankle Injuries with the Rise of Pickleball
Orthopedic Emergencies: The Common and the Critical
What Is Eating Your Bones?: Primary Bone Cancers
Numbness and Tingling, Where Is It Coming From?: A Peripheral Neuropathy Overview for the New Orthopedic, Neurology, and Rehabilitation Clinician
Topics in Pediatric Orthopedics
Becoming Whole Again: How Prosthetics Shape the Human Experience
The Future of Orthopedics: Imagining Orthopedics in the Year 2100

Authors

Kara-Ann Valentine Assistant Professor (Miami Shores), Physician Assistant Program , College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Barry University.