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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 82:297-8 (2000)
© 2000 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Book Review

OFFICE ORTHOPEDICS FOR PRIMARY CARE. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT. ED. 2. Bruce Carl Anderson. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1999. $42.00, 325 pp.

Leela Rangaswamy, M.D.

Anderson, an internist, has incorporated his twenty years of experience in clinical practice into this book on the treatment of common outpatient orthopaedic problems that are seen by primary-care physicians.

The book is divided into four sections. The first section describes the most common outpatient orthopaedic conditions; the second is on fractures; the third consists of exercise-instruction sheets to be given to patients; and the fourth discusses supports, braces, and casts.

The chapters on problems related to the neck discuss two conditions: cervical strain and cervical radiculopathy. The chapter on cervical strain begins with an illustration and some text informing the reader on how to give a trigger-point injection. This is followed by a brief description of what cervical strain consists of and a list of symptoms that patients usually report. There is a short section on physical examination, with eye-catching "summary" sections emphasizing the chief features of examination. Radiography, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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