Description
Book SynopsisThroughout, the authors explore how medical science restores bones, tendons, nerves, muscles, and blood vessels in hands injured through disease, accident, and combat-ever aware of how the form and function of the human hand combine harmoniously in everyday activities and Herculean efforts alike.
Trade ReviewClearly written without requirement for particular prior knowledge, and would be accessible to a bright middle school student... any layperson with an interest in problems of the hand and their treatments would find this book a valuable resource. -- Alexander A. Morgan Journal of Hand Surgery (Am.)
Table of ContentsPreface. Work, Play, Love: The Marvel of the Human Hand
Introduction. Touched: Hands + Environment = Life
Chapter 1. Form Follows Function: The Anatomy of the Hand
Chapter 2. Less (or More) than a Perfect 10: Congenital Differences
Chapter 3. It's Only a Game: The Athlete's Hand
Chapter 4. Worn Down but Not Out: The Arthritic Hand
Chapter 5. Good Vibrations: The Musician's Hand
Chapter 6. I See What You Mean: Hearing with Your Eyes and Speaking with Your Hands in American Sign Language
Chapter 7. Life Is What Happens When You're Busy Making Other Plans: Injuries at Work and at Home
Chapter 8. When Disease Hurts the Hand: Diabetes and the Hand
Chapter 9. Sense and Sensibility: Seeing the World with Braille and Understanding Nerve Impairment Syndromes
Chapter 10. The Renoir Effect: Contractures and Spasticity
Chapter 11. Where Do We Go from Here? Future Innovations in Hand Surgery
Resources
List of Contributors
Index
