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Sarcopenia is a symptom of aging that contributes to the functional decline of the musculoskeletal system, responsible for impaired gait and balance and a high risk of falls and serious fractures. Nutrition and exercise play a key role in the prevention and treatment of sarcopenia. Due to the multifaceted nature of sarcopenia, the best therapeutic approach is multidisciplinary, requiring collaboration between specialists such as geriatricians, internists, physiatrists, general practitioners, nutritionists, and physiotherapists. This book presents a comprehensive overview of sarcopenia with chapters on physiopathological mechanisms, assessment tools, and rehabilitation activities of the condition in the frail elderly.
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Save time identifying and diagnosing pathology specimens with High Yield Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology, edited by Drs. Andrew Horvai and Thomas Link. Part of the High-Yield Pathology Series, this title is designed to help you review the key pathologic features of bone and soft-tissue malformations, recognize the classic look of each disease, and quickly confirm your diagnosis. Its templated format, excellent color photographs, concise bulleted text, and authoritative content will help you accurately identify more than 160 discrete disease entities. Online access to complete text, image ban
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"Bio-Instructive Scaffolds for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine explores musculoskeletal tissue growth and development across populations, ranging from elite athletes to the elderly. The regeneration and reparation of musculoskeletal tissues present the unique challenges of requiring both the need to withstand distinct forces applied to the body and ability to support cell populations. The book is separated into sections based on tissue type, including bone, cartilage, ligament and tendon, muscle, and musculoskeletal tissue interfaces. Within each tissue type, the chapters are subcategorized into strategies focused on cells, hydrogels, polymers, and other materials (i.e. ceramics and metals) utilized in musculoskeletal tissue engineering applications. In each chapter, the relationships that exist amongst the strategy, stem cell differentiation and somatic cell specialization at the intracellular level are emphasized. Examples include intracellular signaling through growth factor delivery, geometry sensing of the surrounding network, and cell signaling that stems from altered population dynamics"--
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"This book presents a new mechanism as to how musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) develop, not considered in previous books, but supported by several lines of evidence. Specifically, the book proposes that MSDs are the result of a material fatigue failure process in musculoskeletal tissues. It explains how fatigue failure theory provides a unifying framework for understanding why the physical risk factors of force, repetition, posture, and vibration exposures (encountered in many jobs) are associated with the development of MSDs. The realization that MSDs result from a fatigue failure process has many important ramifications. For example, there are many validated methods of assessing the development of damage in materials resulting from fatigue failure. These methods allow for the development of easy-to-use risk assessment tools that can assess the cumulative effects of exposure to highly variable loading conditions and can identify the proportion of the overall risk associated with specific tasks (helpful in prioritizing tasks requiring intervention). This is something prior risk assessment approaches have not provided. The fatigue failure risk assessment approach has been shown to be helpful in assessing other issues, such as the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of job rotation scenarios, as well as helping to quantify the effectiveness of exoskeletons. The book also discusses how fatigue failure techniques are well-positioned to address future advances in MSD risk assessment technology, for example, techniques are available to deconstruct complex continuous loading curves into cycles easily analyzed using fatigue failure techniques. However, it must be recognized that in the biological setting the fatigue failure mechanism is "modified" by the presence of remodeling and healing processes in musculoskeletal tissues. This book discusses the complexities associated with fatigue in a biological environment and presents models for understanding how the body strives to maintain musculoskeletal homeostasis through these unique processes. We discuss the potential impact of factors that might impair the healing mechanism (such as psychological stress, obesity and aging) and discuss in detail the dynamic processes of the biological system related to maintaining musculoskeletal health. Recent findings on musculoskeletal epidemiology are provided as well as a detailed overview of the musculoskeletal system"--
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