Περιγραφή
This book provides short chapters with key learning points from experts within the area, about musculoskeletal conditions in patients with obesity. Each chapter will be structured in two parts: (a) the increasing musculoskeletal conditions caused by the obesity and (b) the difficulty of treating the musculoskeletal conditions in the presence of obesity.
It is aimed at a multidisciplinary readership including clinicians, physiotherapists, rehabilitation specialists, general practitioners and sports physicians, and other allied health professionals involved in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.
- Combines a multidisciplinary approach to this difficult, challenging and more prevalent problem
- Provides evidence of the increasingly recognised high incidence of musculoskeletal disease in obese patients
- Examines challenges in managing, both conservatively and surgically, musculoskeletal diseases in obese patients
