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This book provides readers with detailed guidance on the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of injuries and disorders of the elbow, including dislocation, complex instability, articular fractures, epicondylitis and epitrochleitis, distal biceps and triceps tendon injuries, peripheral nerve pathology, snapping triceps syndrome, elbow stiffness, and upper limb compartment syndrome. The choice between conservative and surgical treatment in different settings is clearly explained, and detailed advice offered on selection of surgical technique. A separate section provides a deeper understanding of the most common sports-related elbow pathologies, and their management, based on careful correlation with the movements performed by athletes in particular sports. Extensive consideration is also given to rehabilitation and physiotherapy protocols. This book will be of value for all orthopedic surgeons and other specialists who care for patients with elbow injuries, which can represent a challenge even to the more experienced.

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.- History of Elbow Diseases at Rizzoli Institute.- Anatomy and specimen.- Functional anatomy and biomechanic models of the elbow.- Clinical examination and scores.- Approach to the radiological imaging of the Elbow.- The role of ultrasonographic evaluation in the elbow pathology.- MRI evaluation.- TAC and TAC 3D.- Rehabilitation protocols: are they useful?.- Elbow dislocation and instability classification.- First episode of dislocation and Simple instability: management and rehabilitation.- Complex instability of the elbow: treatment and rehabilitation.- Radial head fracture: synthesis or prothesis.- Distal Humerus fracture Plating Technique.- Capitellar and troclear fractures.- Artroscopic Management of Elbow Fractures.- Distal Humerus fracture in elderly patient: synthesis or prosthesis.- Articular fractures. Treatment and rehabilitation.- Rehabilitation after elbow prosthesis.- Pediatric elbow fractures and Rehabilitation.- Sequaele of treatment in children´s traumatic lesion.- Sindrome di Essex-Lopresti.- Traumatic lesions of peripheral nerves at the elbow.- Vascular lesions at elbow and upper limb compartimental syndrome.- Peripheral nerve pathology in athlete´s elbow.- Epicondilytis and epitrochleitis.- Distal biceps brachii injury.- Triceps brachii injury.- Snapping triceps.- Elbow stiffness.- Elbow stiffness Rehabilitation management .- Postoperative pain relief.- The elbow in bikers.- The throwing´s elbow.- Osteochondritis dissecans in "Little League" players and gymnast.- Rehabilitation in osteochondritis dissecans.- The elbow in wheel-chair and paraolympic athlete.- Assessment tools and orthoses for the athlete´s Return to competitions .- Rehabilitation in swimming pool.- The role of osteopathic treatment.- Pain therapy and acupuncture.- Physical therapy and shock waves.- Brace and rehabilitation.

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Roberto Rotini is Director of Shoulder and Elbow Unit and is responsible for the research program titled "Orthopedic Clinical Pathology" of Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute of Bologna. From 2002 he has been teaching, with the role of Professor on contract, shoulder and elbow matters at the Orthopaedic post-graduate school of Bologna University. He is member of ESSSE/SECEC (European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and the Elbow) from 2002, he is part of the Board of Italian Society for Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (SICSeG) from 2005 and has been the President of this Society in 2013-14. He is part of the Editorial Board of Muskuloskeletal Surgery.

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