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This book forms a complete guide to avoid the trend of clinicians using imaging modalities, especially MRI scans to make a diagnosis of foot and ankle conditions, which can lead to clinicians treating the scan rather than the patient. It represents a complete guide to enable a structured management plan for the patient's condition by considering at least two other differential diagnoses before deciding on structured management. This is a useful resource for all professions in sports medicine including musculoskeletal and sport and exercise medicine doctors, physiotherapists, orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, and sports therapists.
Foot and Ankle Problems in Sport proposes that diagnosis and differential diagnoses should be based on knowledge (anatomy and pathology), observation, anatomical pain mapping, detailed history taking, and confirming with appropriate tests/investigations. Each chapter has been authored by world experts in this field, thus providing best practice guidelines for foot and ankle problems in sports.
List of contents
Anatomy & Function of the foot and ankle.- History Taking and Examination.- Forefoot Pathology.- Midfoot Pathology.- Hindfoot and Ankle Pathology.- Achilles tendon Pathology.- Paediatric Foot & Ankle Pathology.- Rheumatic diseases that mimic sports injuries and interpretation of blood tests.- Imaging Foot and Ankle.- Image guided Injection Therapy.- Regenerative Medicine.- Hyaluronic Acid.- Prolotherapy.- Extra-corporeal Shockwave Therapy.- Principles of Rehabilitation.- Clinical Biomechanics, Gait Analysis & Orthotics.- Uncommon Foot and Ankle Problems.
About the author
Prof Nat Padhiar works in the private sector at London Independent Hospital. During 1991-2011 he held the position of consultant podiatric surgeon at The Royal London Hospital and has been an integral teaching staff member at the Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine for 34 years. He is an Honorary Clinical Professor, internal examiner, course director for Podiatric Sports Medicine, and module leader at the Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts, and The London Medical and Dental School, Queen Mary, London University.
He has been part of the medical team of many sporting events, the Daily Telegraph/British Brain and Spine Foundation London Marathon Team 1999-2007, London Triathlon 2005. At the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Nat was a part of the medical services during the planning stages and was the Clinical Lead for Podiatric Sports Medicine.
Prof Nicola Maffulli is a consultant orthopedic and sports injury surgeon. Nicola was the first full-time competitively appointed Lecturer in Sports Medicine at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Trained by the late Prof John King, the initiator of the course in Sports Medicine at the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Nicola developed the research aspect of sports and exercise medicine not just from the orthopedic side but basic sciences as well which contributed to the literature in sports physiology and the genetics of sports performance. He also organized the medical services for the judo and wrestling tournaments at the 2012 Olympics.
Summary
This book forms a complete guide to avoid the trend of clinicians using imaging modalities, especially MRI scans to make a diagnosis of foot and ankle conditions, which can lead to clinicians treating the scan rather than the patient. It represents a complete guide to enable a structured management plan for the patient’s condition by considering at least two other differential diagnoses before deciding on structured management. This is a useful resource for all professions in sports medicine including musculoskeletal and sport and exercise medicine doctors, physiotherapists, orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, and sports therapists.
Foot and Ankle Problems in Sport proposes that diagnosis and differential diagnoses should be based on knowledge (anatomy and pathology), observation, anatomical pain mapping, detailed history taking, and confirming with appropriate tests/investigations. Each chapter has been authored by world experts in this field, thus providing best practice guidelines for foot and ankle problems in sports.
