The Pediatric and Adolescent Hip: Essentials and Evidence

The Pediatric and Adolescent Hip: Essentials and Evidence

Description

This book provides an evidence-based approach to treating the increasing number of children and adolescents presenting with hip disorders. It integrates the most up-to-date data with essential knowledge, gleaned from decades of previous research and practice.

Each chapter provides a comprehensive text which integrates relevant pathophysiology, clinical assessment, and imaging, with an evidence-based approach to non-operative and operative management, authored by globally recognized experts in the field of pediatric hip surgery. Detailed surgical techniques, illustrated with original medical drawings and accompanied by their respective indications, anticipated outcomes, and potential complications, are also featured, in this first orthopedic text dedicated solely to the pediatric and adolescent hip.

The Pediatric and Adolescent Hip: Essentials and Evidence will be an indispensable resource for wide spectrum of audience including paediatric orthopaedic surgeons, general practitioners, general orthopaedic surgeons, trauma surgeons, orthopaedic residents, emergency department doctors, and physiotherapists seeking a clear and consistent evidence-based guide to treating the paediatric hip.

About the Author

Sattar Alshryda (MBChB, MRCP(UK), MRCS, EBOT, SICOT, FRCS (T&O), MSc, PhD) is a consultant paediatric trauma and orthopaedic surgeon. He holds several positions including the clinical director of trauma and paediatric orthopaedic surgery at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, UK, an executive board member of the British Society of the Children Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS), a surgical tutor of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Lead for research and education for children’s trauma and orthopaedic surgery in Central Manchester University Hospital and honorary lecturer at the University of Manchester.

Jason J. Howard, B.Eng., M.D. F.R.C.S.C. is the Division Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Sidra Medicine and is Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, in Doha, Qatar. He is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon specializing in the treatment of cerebral palsy and other neuromuscular diagnoses, pediatric hip disorders, and spinal deformities.

James S. Huntley MA MCh DPhil (Oxon) FRCSEd (Tr&Orth) FRCSGlas FRCPEdin FFSTEd is Senior Attending Physician in Paediatric Orthopaedics at Sidra Medicine Qatar. Previously, he was a full-time NHS Consultant at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill, Glasgow) and was Honorary Clinical Associate Professor and Barclay Lecturer at the University.

Jonathan G. Schoenecker MD, PhD, FAAOS, FAOA is an associate professor and Jeffrey Mast Chair of Orthopaedic Hip and Trauma Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee USA. He is an orthopaedic surgeon-scientist dedicated to caring for children with orthopaedic hip conditions, trauma and infection, educating future surgeon-scientists, and conducting high impact translational research.

Read more about: Sattar Alshryda, Jason J. Howard, James S. Huntley, Jonathan G. Schoenecker