Pocket Podiatry: Functional Anatomy
1st Edition
Published on 14. August 2014
337 pages
978-0-7020-4281-2 (ISBN)
Available for download
Description
Pocket Podiatry: Functional Anatomy gives you all the essentials of examination and diagnosis in a convenient, user-friendly format. With the emphasis on practical, step-by-step guidance, this handy volume is specially designed to include helpful diagrams, tables, tips and summary boxes to give you quick access to key information with the minimum of fuss.
With its clarity and portability, students will find the Pocket Podiatry series an invaluable companion to their studies, while practitioners will appreciate its clinical orientation and concision.
Features:
•Relevant - focuses on key information
•Convenient - handy sized volumes can easily be carried in coat pocket
•Practical - a minimum of theory and a maximum of clinical emphasis
•Accessible - user-friendly format with summaries and helpful tips
•Specialist - written by podiatrists for podiatrists
•Clear - full colour design throughout
With its clarity and portability, students will find the Pocket Podiatry series an invaluable companion to their studies, while practitioners will appreciate its clinical orientation and concision.
Features:
•Relevant - focuses on key information
•Convenient - handy sized volumes can easily be carried in coat pocket
•Practical - a minimum of theory and a maximum of clinical emphasis
•Accessible - user-friendly format with summaries and helpful tips
•Specialist - written by podiatrists for podiatrists
•Clear - full colour design throughout
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
File size
54,24 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7020-4281-2 (9780702042812)
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James Watkins
Functional Anatomy
Book
05/2009
Churchill Livingstone
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Content
- Front cover
- Functional anatomy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Elementary biomechanics
- Force
- Mechanics and biomechanics
- Forms of motion
- Units of measurement
- Newton's laws of motion
- Newton's law of gravitation
- Centre of gravity
- Stability
- Load, strain and stress
- Friction
- Musculoskeletal system function
- Centre of pressure
- Vector and scalar quantities
- Moment of a force
- Achilles tendon force and ankle joint reaction force in upright standing
- Levers
- Load on the musculoskeletal system
- Review questions
- References
- Chapter 2 Tissues, organs and systems
- Unicellular and multicellular organisms
- Cellular organization in multicellular organisms
- The musculoskeletal system
- Review questions
- References
- Chapter 3 The skeleton
- Composition and function of the skeleton
- Terminology
- The axial skeleton
- The appendicular skeleton
- Review questions
- References
- Chapter 4 Connective tissues
- Functions of connective tissues
- Ordinary connective tissues
- Cartilage
- Bone
- Structural adaptation of the musculoskeletal system
- Review questions
- References
- Chapter 5 The articular system
- Structural classification of joints
- Joint movements
- Synovial joint classification
- Flexibility, stability and laxity in synovial joints
- Review questions
- References
- Chapter 6 The neuromuscular system
- The nervous system
- Skeletal muscle structure
- Muscle fibres
- Kinaesthetic sense and proprioception
- Mechanical characteristics of muscle-tendon units
- Muscle architecture and function
- Review questions
- References
- Chapter 7 Structure and function of the foot
- Rearfoot complex
- Arches of the feet
- Podiatric biomechanics
- Review questions
- References
- Glossary
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- Index
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