The ACL Handbook

Knee Biology, Mechanics, and Treatment
Herausgegeben:Murray, Martha M.; Vavken, Patrick; Fleming, Braden

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

ACL injuries affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year. While ACL reconstruction via tendon graft is able to restore gross stability to the knee, the procedure is far from a perfect treatment. Challenges such as high failure rates in adolescent athletes and the inability to slow the accelerated progression of arthritis after an ACL rupture, for example, drive interest in developing new methods of treatment. The ACL Handbook takes a complete view of ACL injuries and treatments, discussing:
-Mechanics of the normal ACL and knee
-The body s response to ACL injury
-Deficiencies of that biological response which prevent ACL injuries from healing spontaneously
-Development of new treatment methods to overcome these deficiencies
Ideal for orthopedists, sports medicine physicians, and physical therapists, The ACL Handbook is a unique resource for information on the basic and applied science of ACL injury, repair, and the future of treatment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 80073182, 978-1-4614-0759-1
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781461407591
• ISBN-10: 1461407591
• Artikelnr.: 33574317

Inhaltsangabe

ACL Injury Epidemiology.- History of ACL Treatment and Current Gold Standard of Care.- ACL Clinical Outcomes.- ACL Treatment in the Skeletally Immature Patient.- The Biology of the Normal ACL.- The Role of Inflammation and Blood Cells in Wound Healing.- The ACL Response to Injury.- The Biology of Impaired Healing of Joint Issues.- Translational Medicine.- In Vitro Models of ACL Injury.- In Vivo Models of ACL Injury (Central Defect, Porcine, Ovine, Canine).- Tissue Engineering of Ligaments and Tendons.- Outcome Assessment for ACL Tissue Engineering.- Scaffolds and Biologic Additives for ACL Surgery.- Use of Biologics to Treat Partial ACL Tears.- Can We Get a Complete ACL Tear to Heal?.- The Effects of Platelets and Their Concentration on ACL Healing.- The Effects of WBCs and RBCs on Ligament Healing.- Safety of the Bioenhanced Repair.- Re-Innervation and Revascularization in Engineered ACL Healing.- Bio-enhancement of ACL Graft Healing.- The Effects of Age and Skeletal Maturity on Healing of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament.