All About Osteoarthritis

Nancy E. Lane is Associate Professor in Residence of Medicine and Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, and the Director of the Rheumatology Outpatient Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital. She is the author of The Osteoporosis Book. Daniel J. Wallace is the best-selling author of The Lupus Book and Making Sense of Fibromyalgia. He is Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine,an Attending Physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Past President of the Research and Education Foundation of the American College of Rheumatology.

• Part 1: Introduction and Definitions ; Introduction: Why Write a Book about Osteoarthritis? ; 1. What Is Osteoarthritis? ; 2. The History of Osteoarthritis ; 3. Who Gets Osteoarthritis? ; Part 2: Boning up on the Musculoskeletal System ; 4. Bone: A Living Tissue ; 5. Cartilage and Its Accomplices ; 6. What Causes Osteoarthritis? ; Part 3: How Does a Doctor Evaluate Osteoarthritis? ; 7. What Happens at a Musculoskeletal Examination? ; 8. How Is Osteoarthritis Diagnosed? ; 9. The Many Faces of Osteoarthritis: Specialized Forms ; 10. How Can I Sure It's Really Osteoarthritis? ; Part 4: How and Where can the body be affected by Osteoarthritis? ; 11. The Upper Body and Extremities ; 12. The Spine: Its Nooks and Tingles ; 13. The Lower Body: Undoings at Our Underpinnings ; Part 5: The Management of Osteoarthritis ; 14. You Can Conquer Osteoarthritis ; 15. Living Well with Osteoarthritis ; 16. Exercises to Improve Osteoarthritis ; 17. How Osteoarthritis Medications Are Tested ; 18. Medications that Work for Osteoarthritis ; 19. Local Medical Therapies ; 20. But Doctor, I'm in Pain ; 21. When Do We Operate? ; 22. Alternative Therapies: Do They Work? ; 23. I Have Osteoarthritis: Who Should I Go to for Treatment ; 24. Special Cases: Osteoarthritis from Childhood Events and During Pregnancy ; Part 6: Outcome and Future Directions ; 25. Can Or Should I Work? ; 26. Prognosis ; 27. New directions: Is There Hope for a Cure?

"There are many easy-to-understand line drawings explaining the anatomy and procedures described in the book and an excellent glossary." --Choice"This is a practical, comprehensive, and up-to-date overview of osteoarthritis written by very experienced and highly respected authors, and should prove helpful to all of those who read it." --Joseph D. Croft, M.D., past-president of the American College of Rheumatology"This is a practical, comprehensive, and up-to-date overview of osteoarthritis written by very experienced and highly respected authors, and should prove helpful to all of those who read it." --Joseph D. Croft, M.D., past-president of the American College of Rheumatology