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Overview
Bones and joints are always under mechanical loading a key concept in understanding bone metabolism. Among the most common diseases of bones and joints in the elderly are osteoporosis and joint osteoarthritis. Dynamic changes in mechanical loading give rise to problems resulting in stenosis of the spinal column at the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar levels. Mechanical loading also accelerates joint destruction caused by inflammation from such conditions as chronic rheumatoid arthritis. An understanding of mechanical loading is essential therefore to clinicians, basic researchers, and engineers working with bones and joints. Providing up-to-date research and clinical findings, the contents of this volume are from the papers, symposia, and special lectures presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association in Niigata, in October 1997.
The book contains predominantly black-and-white illustrations, with some color illustrations.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Riad Barmada, MD(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)Description: This book contains papers and symposia presented at the Japanese Research Society in 1997. The research work and discussions address the response at a cellular level of mechanical loading on bone, joints, spinal cord, and cauda equina.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide up-to-date information to scientists, engineers, and clinicians.
Audience: The audience would include basic scientists and researchers interested in bone and joint metabolism, physiology, and bone response at a cellular level to various injuries.
Features: The book contains five sections dealing with osteoporosis, mechanical loading of bone, regulation of bone destruction in rheumatoid arthritis, and response of spinal cord and cauda equina to stress.
Assessment: This publication provides valuable information to researchers and basic scientists interested in bone response of mechanical loading at a cellular level. More important is to include in one book research findings and opinions of researches from several centers.
Riad Barmada
This book contains papers and symposia presented at the Japanese Research Society in 1997. The research work and discussions address the response at a cellular level of mechanical loading on bone, joints, spinal cord, and cauda equina. The purpose is to provide up-to-date information to scientists, engineers, and clinicians. The audience would include basic scientists and researchers interested in bone and joint metabolism, physiology, and bone response at a cellular level to various injuries. The book contains five sections dealing with osteoporosis, mechanical loading of bone, regulation of bone destruction in rheumatoid arthritis, and response of spinal cord and cauda equina to stress. This publication provides valuable information to researchers and basic scientists interested in bone response of mechanical loading at a cellular level. More important is to include in one book research findings and opinions of researches from several centers.3 Stars from Doody