Chapter 136 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Guidelines Paul F. Lachiewicz BACKGROUND RATIONALE AND METHODOLOGY RECOMMENDATIONS DISCUSSION Clinical guidelines in medicine have been devised to standardize and improve patient care…
Chapter 51 Osteotomy and the Cruciate-Deficient Knee Randy Clark, Annunziato Amendola Estimates report 100,000 new anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries each year in the United States, with an overall incidence…
Chapter 28 Arthroscopic Treatment of Degenerative Arthritis of the Knee Jack M. Bert Significant controversy exists regarding the arthroscopic treatment of osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. The indications for arthroscopic…
Chapter 48 Complications of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Jason D. Archibald, Geoffrey S. Baer Rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most common ligament injuries to…
Chapter 13 Fluoroscopic Analysis of Total Knee Replacement John Kyle P. Mueller, Richard D. Komistek, Mohamed R. Mahfouz, Douglas A. Dennis PRINCIPLES OF FLUOROSCOPY Radiographic Image Prediction Modeling Methods CLINICAL…
Chapter 26 Articular Cartilage Repair With Bioscaffolds Jack Farr, II, Andreas Gomoll The goal of articular cartilage restoration is to recreate normal hyaline cartilage at the site of a cartilage…
Chapter 143 Advances in Mechanical Compression Devices Andrew I. Spitzer MECHANICAL DEVICES THE ROLE OF MECHANICAL COMPRESSION AFTER TKA EMERGING TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS “The prevention of thrombophlebitis and pulmonary…
Chapter 53 Rehabilitation of the Surgically Reconstructed and Nonsurgically Treated Anterior Cruciate Ligament Jonathan T. Finnoff, Diane L. Dahm The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) serves a number of roles within…
Chapter 67 Gout and Other Crystalline Arthropathies Aryeh M. Abeles, Michael H. Pillinger Crystalline Arthropathies Although there are a number of crystal-related arthropathies, the most common are gout and pseudogout,…
Chapter 110 Posterior Cruciate Sacrificing Total Knee Arthroplasty Aaron A. Hofmann, Jeremy McCandless Debate continues regarding the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Good long-term data exist…
