Casebook of Orthopedic Rehabilitation Including Virtual Reality

Title:

ISBN:

9783540744276

Personal Author:

Ip, David. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2008.

Publication Information New:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.

Physical Description:

XII, 330 p. online resource.

Contents:

Section I -- New Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry Machines (iDXA) and Vertebral Fracture Assessment (VFA) -- Hyper-gravity Stimulation Therapy -- Lady Having Difficulty in Controlling the Computer Mouse -- Whiplash-associated Neck Disabilities -- Sizable Cartilage Defect in a Professional Footballer -- Functional Knee Complaints in a Child with Cerebral Palsy -- Hamstrings Injuries in a Professional Sprinter -- Was it Simply Tachycardia or Something More Sinister? -- A Lady with Intractable Heel Pain -- Hip Swelling after Combined TBI and SCI -- Consultation for a Third Opinion on Bone Health -- Was It Really Another Case of "Tennis Elbow"? -- A Patient Requesting an "Oxford Uni" for his knee OA -- Bisphosphonates and Peri-prosthetic Osteolysis -- A Young Engineer with Disabling Sciatic Pain -- The "Wonder Drug" Glucosamine -- Hyaluronan for Knee OA, Facts Vs. Myths -- High Heels Woes -- Silent Bone Loss and Vitamin D Insufficiency -- A Professor Suffering from OA Knee Pain -- New Physical Sign in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome -- Kinesiophobia -- Breakthrough Fracture While on Bisphosphonates -- Can Back Pain Be Predicted? -- Enthusiasm for "Non-fusion Technology" for Discogenic Back Pain -- Extra Busy Banker Troubled by Subacute Back Pain, Yet No Time for Physiotherapy -- Metal-on-Metal Hip Surface Replacement -- A Young Lady with AVN after SARS -- An Athlete Going for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with Little Time for Rehabilitation -- The Office Lady with Neck, Shoulder, Arm, and Back Pain -- Bone Health and Space Travel -- Crouch Gait -- Non-healing Diabetes Mellitus Heel Ulcer -- Cervical Disc Replacement -- Intractable Lateral Epicondylitis -- Chronic LBP in a Laborer Whose Job Requires Repeated Lifting -- Stiffness after Flexor Tendon Repair -- Postpartum Sacroiliac Joint Pain -- Use of Smart Materials in Orthopedics -- Section II -- General Introduction -- Real Life Applications.

Abstract:

This book is a companion text to Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Assessment, and Enablement by the same author, but can be used independently. Section 1 serves to illustrate through real-life examples the rehabilitation ideas and principles taught in the companion text, ranging from conditions seen daily by the orthopedic surgeon or primary care physician like knee and hip osteoarthritis or plantar fasciitis; through more challenging conditions like hamstring injury rehabilitation or heterotrophic ossification; to recent paradigm shifts in the management of osteoporosis and new technologies like vertebral fracture assessment using state-of-the-art DXA machines, hypergravity stimulation therapy, and many more. In Section 2, the author introduces the reader to the vast number of applications of computers in orthopedic surgery, with special emphasis on the emerging importance of virtual reality in all aspects of orthopedics, ranging from pre-operative planning, pre-operative surgical practice on virtual patients, and virtual wayfinding and navigation; through intra-operative virtual bone structure modeling to enhance accuracy; to, most importantly, post-operative or non-operative rehabilitation of orthopedic conditions using these new computer techniques. The book ends by stressing the importance of telerehabilitation, an increasingly important tool for ensuring that even patients living in remote rural areas can have the chance to participate in rehabilitation guided by a therapist through the use of a virtual environment and teleconferencing.

Subject Term:

Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation.

Surgical Orthopedics.

Rehabilitation Psychology.