Aspects of Femoral Trochlear Dysplasia
Trochlear dysplasia is a common but overlooked knee condition causing pain and instability. This book—the first of its kind—is an essential reference for doctors, surgeons, and physiotherapists. It covers causes, symptoms, assessment, imaging, and operations like trochleoplasty.
This book introduces a new view of agility theory, offering experimental research and theoretical knowledge on both reactive and running agility. It also details a number of agility training methods and exercises.
This collection presents case studies and reflections on research bioethics from a Latin American perspective. It inspires comparative analyses of research with human subjects and explores the reception of global scientific ideas in the region.
This book focuses on community-based health care, with community health workers as a critical workforce. It explores case studies and techniques for successful community engagement, showing why understanding people’s perspectives is vital to health improvement.
Epigenetic Functional Nutrition
This book contains the latest research on how bioactive compounds in functional foods fight chronic diseases. It highlights the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet and its epigenetic effects in preventing and managing mental disorders and inflammation-based cancers.
This book highlights the usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for lung and thoracic tumors. Economical and with no radiation exposure, MRI offers advantages over CT and PET-CT, allowing for qualitative analysis of disease and early assessment of therapeutic effects.
Arts, Health and Wellbeing
This volume features contributions from leading UK researchers in the field of arts and health, including creative arts therapies, and will appeal to anyone practising or researching arts and health, in both hospitals and community settings.
Running can positively influence our mental and physical health and contribute to a “good life.” This book relates running to well-being, brain health, and life skills, developing its ideas with the life experiences of one of the greatest distance runners, Bill Rodgers.
Oral Infections and Systemic Diseases
Oral infections can affect your general health. This book gives an overview of the scientific evidence for linkages between oral infections and systemic diseases. It also provides a short overview of oral infections and symptoms that are due to systemic diseases.
Selected Articles and Letters of Stewart R. Roberts, MD (1878-1941)
Stewart R. Roberts, MD, was the first cardiologist in the South of the United States and was frequently called ‘the Osler of the South.’ This book presents a selection of 20 articles by Roberts, providing insights into his work and his environment.
This book offers an ethical analysis of challenges in COVID-19 research, vaccination, and therapy. It confronts the dilemma of who to treat when life-saving resources are limited and highlights the necessity of a global bioethical framework for pandemic management.
This book collects interviews with eight master cardiovascular surgeons, trailblazers of the 20th century whose contributions affect medical practice today. Each interview offers insights on the surgeons’ personal and professional lives.
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Spasticity
An updated practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of spasticity, authored by experienced physicians. It provides tips and tricks to help both GPs and specialists safely provide patients with the most convenient treatment.
Me and My Hormones
This jargon-free book offers a comprehensive account of hormone conditions affecting all ages. It covers common issues like puberty timing, thyroid disorders, diabetes, and weight, bringing clarity to how hormones impact your health, growth, and well-being.
This book summarizes 50 years’ work on dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNIC). After the discovery of nitrogen monoxide (NO) as a universal regulator in organisms, interest in DNIC grew. By donating NO, DNIC mimic its beneficial and detrimental effects and are its “working” form.
First Language Bidialectism in Second Language Interface Acquisition
This book helps separate language difference from disorder in multidialectal L2 learners. It offers empirical and theoretical support for linguists and speech-language pathologists, with valuable implications for teaching, assessment, and clinical practice.
This easy-to-use text offers a fast review of orthopaedic pathology for daily clinical practice and board examination. It is a helpful reference for anatomic pathologists and orthopaedic surgeons preparing for their board exams.
This book discusses the rise and fall of “wonder drugs” that combat deadly infections. However, overuse leads to antibiotic resistance, leaving few treatment options. Explore the discoveries of major drug classes, the resistant bacteria we now face, and novel strategies.
Thinking about Thinking
How do we acquire knowledge, and how do we know it is true? This book surveys the methods, from common sense and intuition to the scientific method, statistics, and artificial intelligence. Written for a lay audience, it is an approachable guide to the field of epistemology.
Chronic pelvic pain often has an unclear cause and a major impact on quality of life. The most successful treatment is a multidisciplinary approach. This book discusses pain abnormalities, various treatments, and delves into the psychological approach to such pain.