This book, Arthrogryposis, is a text atlas, written to meet the needs of health care professionals and families for an overview of the arthrogrypotic syndromes. The book is intended to be comprehensive, scientifically accurate, patient oriented, colorful, compact, engaging, and easily understood. A glossary is provided to help family members without a medical background. To make the book afford…
Pediatric orthopedics is a subspecialty of medicine that deals with the prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders in children. In 1741, Nicholas Andry, professor of medicine at the University of Paris, published his treatise describing different methods of preventing and correcting deformities in children. He combined two Greek words, orthos, or straight, and paidios, child, into on…