Foot and Ankle Pain (Pain Series)

This popular series, by a distinguished professor of physical medicine, has proved helpful to physicians and therapists all over the world. Each book offers sound, common-sense guidance in diagnosing and treating painful and disabling conditions.In every book, the author's lucid text and instructional drawings provide a strong foundation in the basic and functional anatomy of the pain's region. He discusses various painful conditions and shows how each condition is related to the abnormal mechanism causing the pain or disability. Specific and practical suggestions for treatment help to correct or alter the abnormality discovered from the history and physical examination. Details on the individual books follow.-- Discusses and illustrates the various techniques and procedures of the physical examination of the foot-- Includes individual chapters on the diabetic foot and reflex sympathetic dystrophy of the lower extremity-- Highlights updated neurophysiological aspects of the foot and ankle, including recent concepts and mechanisms of hallux valgus