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Thieme congratulates Joseph D. Zuckerman on being chosen by New York magazine for its prestigious Best Doctors 2015 list. From high impact energy injuries to fragility fractures in the elderly, the wide variability in shoulder fractures have made them simultaneously the most common and challenging of shoulder injuries. Based on the authors' extensive clinical and teaching experience, here is your complete guide to the management of fractures of the proximal humerus, clavicle, and scapula. You wi...

A must for the millions who experience lower back pain. A friendly, practical guide to coping with lower back pain--from pinpointing problems to determining proper treatment. The sometimes crippling, often prolonged back pain that afflicts 2.5 million Americans at one time or another is harder to diagnose than it is to cure. Dr. Loren Fishman, a distinguished clinician and a trailblazer in the treatment of sciatica, believes there's only one road to relief: patients must become partners with the...

A companion volume to "Protein Purification Methods: A Practical Approach", this volume concentrates on the purification of proteins for specific purposes, and provides clear descriptions immediately useful in the laboratory. Specific applications include large-scale techniques (for industrial and biotechnological use), high quality purification (for medical uses) and procedures of interest to biochemists, physiologists and others investigating the structure of proteins.

The Back Pain Sourcebook is a complete guide for the back pain sufferer, offering information on why backs hurt and what people can do to relieve the pain, including the latest treatments and medications. This updated edition includes expanded information on problems such as herniated disks, bone spurs, back sprains, arthritis pain, tumors, and infections. The book explains preventive techniques and exercises to help strengthen and heal bad backs and presents alternative healing methods such as...

Now completely updated regarding the latest procedures, materials, devices, classification systems, and technologies, A Manual of Orthopaedic Terminology, 9th Edition, is an invaluable reference for anyone who needs access to the most up-to-date terms, acronyms, and codes related to clinical orthopaedics and research. This portable guide allows for quick searches both in print and online, categorizing and cross-referencing terms so that those unfamiliar with orthopaedics can locate a term in its...

Rheumatische Erkrankungen werden aus der Sicht einer inter- disziplin{r zusammengesetzten Arbeitsgruppe geschildert, de- ren gemeinsames Anliegen esist, die Versorgungssituation der Kranken zu verbessern. Ausgehend von einerAnalyse epi- demiologischer und sozialmedizinischer Dimensionen rheumati- scher Erkrankungen, wird die psychische und soziale Situa- tion der Erkrankten mit ihren besonderen Belastungen ge- schildert. Den Vorstellungen der Patienten }ber die Genese ihrer Erkrankung werden wis...

The Micro-Tomographic Atlas of the Mouse Skeleton provides a unique systematic description of all calcified components of the mouse. It includes about 200 high resolution, two and three dimensional m CT images of the exterior and interiors of all bones and joints. In addition, the spatial relationship of bones within complex skeletal units is also described. The images are accompanied by detailed explanatory text, thus highlighting special features and newly reported structures. The Atlas fulfil...