Overview
- Provides a review of soft tissue, bone, ligament, and nerve injury of the hand and wrist particular to baseball
- Features sections on fractures, ligament, tendon and nerve injuries, and youth injury and rehabilitation
- A great resource for orthopedic surgeons and sports medicine specialists
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About this book
This book comprehensively reviews soft tissue, bone, ligament, and nerve injury of the hand and wrist unique to baseball.
Organized into three sections, the book begins with a discussion on fractures of the hand and wrist, including the distal radius, scaphoid, and phalanges. Following this, section two examines ligament injuries from the wrist to the thumb. Section three then concludes the book with an analysis of tendon and nerve injuries. Chapters include high-quality images and tables to supplement expertly written text.
Unique and thorough, Hand and Wrist Injuries in Baseball is an invaluable resource for orthopedics surgeons and sports medicine specialists, as well as primary care physicians, emergency room physicians, pediatricians, athletic trainers, and therapists.Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Baseball injury
- Basilar fracture
- Carpal fracture
- Carpometacarpal (CMC) injury
- Distal radius fracture
- Extensor tendon injury
- Flexor tendon injury
- Hamate fracture
- Phalangeal fracture
- Median nerve injury
- Scaphoid fracture
- Scapholunate injury
- Throwing hand
- Thumb perineural fibrosis
- Triangular fibrocartilage complex injury
- Ulnar nerve injury
Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fractures of the Hand and Wrist
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Ligament Injuries of the Hand and Wrist
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Tendon and Nerve Injuries of the Hand and Wrist
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gary M. Lourie, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedics, Emory University School of Medicine, The Hand and Upper Extremity Center of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, USA
Dr. Lourie is the Hand and Upper Extremity Surgeon for the Atlanta Braves MLB franchise.
Dr. Lourie is the Hand and Upper Extremity Surgeon for the Atlanta Braves MLB franchise.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hand and Wrist Injuries in Baseball
Book Subtitle: A Clinical Guide
Editors: Gary M. Lourie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81659-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81658-2Published: 30 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81661-2Published: 01 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81659-9Published: 29 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 289
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 122 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Primary Care Medicine