Ultrasonography of the Lower Extremity Sport-Related Injuries /

• Main Author: Draghi, Ferdinando (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Radiology.; Rehabilitation medicine.; Orthopedics.; Rheumatology.; Imaging / Radiology.; Rehabilitation Medicine.

This book provides a detailed overview of ultrasound imaging of sport-related injuries of the lower extremity. The available literature focuses mainly on either clinical aspects or all imaging modalities and clinical aspects of sport-related pathologies, with little relevance on ultrasound. Indeed,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Muscle Injuries
• Tendon injuries
• Morel-Lavallée lesion
• Hip synovial pathology
• Joint effusion
• Bursitis
• Muscles and tendons around the pelvis
• Greater trochanteric pain syndrome
• Knee synovial pathology
• Joint effusion
• Bursitis
• Baker's cyst
• Overuse syndromes of the knee
• Jumper's knee
• Osgood-Schlatter disease
• Sinding-Larsen-Johansson syndrome
• Friction syndromes of the knee
• The fabella syndrome
• Iliotibial band syndrome
• Medial head of gastrocnemius tears (tennis leg)
• Ankle sprain
• Peroneal tendons pathology
• Achilles tendon pathology
• Plantar fascia disorders
• Foot fractures
• Index. .