Includes Index

It is our honor to present the second edition of Pediatric Orthopedics and Sports
Medicine: A Handbook for Primary Care Physicians to our readers, which is
designed to be a quick and practical resource for pediatricians, family medicine
physicians, residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and medical students
and all other health care providers caring for pediatric population with musculoskeletal disorders. This book is a concise, clinically oriented and readily available
resource to study common pediatric musculoskeletal diseases and sports medicine
injuries. The book will help you to decide whether to treat the condition or refer it
to the specialist.
The second edition kept the same interesting and easy-to-follow format that the
first edition had. We tried to stay away from long paragraphs and controversial statements. The information in the book is presented in a simple “bullet” format that
allows the reader to understand the topic easily and with minimal effort. More than
300 figures were included in this handbook.
This edition comes with significant changes from the previous edition. Because
most children participate in sports, we have expanded on this part of the book and
added a new chapter that describes the general aspects of sports participating including pre-participation physical assessment. The basics of pediatric musculoskeletal
imaging was a topic that needed more clarification to our readers, so we added a
new chapter for this purpose. Most chapters had revisions to come closer to our goal
of providing concise and “to the target” information to our readers.
We would like to thank all who purchased the first and/or the second edition in
either its paper or digital format. Without the enormous support and useful comments from our readers, we could not have issued this valuable second edition. We
hope that this enhanced second edition will stand to the expectations of our readers
and it will be a great source of knowledge to them.