Understanding Joints: A Practical Guide to Their Structure and Function

Bernard Kingston

Nelson Thornes, 2000 - Medical - 240 pages

Written by the author of the highly successful Understanding Muscles, Understanding Joints encourages the reader to develop awareness and understanding of how the joints of the body work. An interactive learning approach is taken with the author suggesting palpation and other interactive learning techniques as the best way to appreciate joint function.

This is an excellent introductory text for students of physiotherapy, osteopathy and other subjects related to orthopedics and manual medicine. It can also be used as a reference source providing a general overview of the structure and functions of the main joints in the body. The book is extensively illustrated and includes a range of study tasks to encourage learning by discovery. Clinical notes, written at an introductory level, help to link theory with possible clinical problems on specific joints and joint groups.

Contents

• how to use this book: 1
• Anatomical terminology and movements: 4
• Introduction to joints: 7
• an introduction: 23
• The cervical spine: 30
• The respiratory mechanism and the thoracic spine: 46
• The lumbar spine: 63
• The vertebral junction areas: 79
• The pelvis and sacroiliac joints: 89
• The shoulder: 99
• The elbow: 117
• The wrist: 126
• The hand: 136
• The hip: 148
• The knee: 163
• The ankle: 183
• The foot: 190
• The temporomandibular joints: 208

Popular passages

Page 232 - Pearcy MJ, Tibrewal SB 1984 Axial rotation and lateral bending in the normal lumbar spine measured by three-dimensional radiography. Spine 9: 582-587 Pearcy M, Portek I, Shepherd J 1984 Three-dimensional X-ray analysis of normal movement in the lumbar spine.‎

About the author

Kingston is affiliated with the British School of Osteopathy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Understanding Joints: A Practical Guide to Their Structure and Function
• Author: Bernard Kingston
• Edition: 2, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Nelson Thornes, 2000
• ISBN: 0748753990, 9780748753994
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Allied Health Services / Physical Therapy; Medical / Osteopathy; Medical / Physiology; Science / Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology; Science / Life Sciences / Biology