Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Shoulder, Hip and Knee Arthritis, but Didn’t Know What to Ask

By Advantage Professional Publishing Inc.

A comprehensive guide to Shoulder, Hip, and Knee Arthritis written by three doctors. This book was written in order to help patients suffering from arthritis-related discomfort of the shoulder, hip, and/or knee joints. This book is not intended to replace the very important relationship between the patient and his or her doctor.

This book is designed to assist with communication between patients and physicians. Specifically, this book will enable patients to ask highly productive questions and obtain the most useful information from their medical care providers (doctors, physicians' assistants, nurses, etc.) during their appointments or telephone conversations.

The book is organized to cover different aspects of these three areas of Arthritis and concurring treatments. There may be some overlap of information within the chapters, which is due to the intertwining nature of various arthritis treatments. The treatment options described in the book are the most up-to-date at the time this book was written. The reader should be aware that our understanding of arthritis and treatment options is constantly expanding and some of the explanations and recommendations may be out of date, even before the final publication process is completed. Nevertheless, our sincere hope is that this material will provide important knowledge to a patient suffering from arthritis and will contribute to an improved quality of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Advantage Professional Publishing Inc.
• Release date: Dec 16, 2011
• ISBN: 9780615581521

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Shoulder, Hip and Knee Arthritis, but Didn’t Know What to Ask

Alexander D. Rosenstein, M.D., William D. Ratnoff, M.D., & Stephen S. Yang, M.D.

Copyright Alexander D. Rosenstein, M.D. 2011

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Shoulder, Hip, and Knee Arthritis

but Didn’t Know What to Ask

By: Alexander D. Rosenstein, M.D., William D. Ratnoff, M.D., & Stephen S. Yang, M.D.

Published by: Advantage Professional Publishing, Inc.

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Authors: Alexander D. Rosenstein, M.D., William D. Ratnoff, M.D., & Stephen S. Yang, M.D.

Publisher: Advantage Professional Publishing, Inc.

Cover Design by: Arielle Rosenstein

Editor: Allen Rosenstein

Associate Editor: Nerds of Technology (R)

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INTRODUCTION

This book was written in order to help patients suffering from arthritis-related discomfort of the shoulder, hip, and/or knee joints. This book is not intended to replace the very important relationship between the patient and his or her doctor. This book is designed to assist with communication between patients and physicians. Specifically, this book will enable patients to ask highly productive questions in goal of obtaining the most useful information from their medical care providers (doctors, physicians’ assistants, nurses, etc.) during their appointments or telephone conversations.

The following chapters are organized to cover different aspects of Arthritis and concurring treatments. There may be some overlap of information within the chapters, which is due to the intertwining nature of various arthritis treatments. The treatment options described in the book are the most up-to-date at the time this book was written. The reader should be aware that our understanding of arthritis and treatment options is constantly expanding and some of the explanations and recommendations may be out of date, even before the final publication process is completed. Nevertheless, our sincere hope is that this material will provide important knowledge to a patient suffering from arthritis and will contribute to an improved quality of life.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ALEXANDER D. ROSENSTEIN, M.D.

Dr. Alexander D. Rosenstein is a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and an Adjoint Professor of Biomedical. He has been taking care of arthritis patients and performed numerous surgeries at one of the world‘s largest medical centers.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Technology, Dr. Rosenstein went on to receive his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine. He completed his orthopedic residency at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center.

Dr. Rosenstein was awarded the Girdlestone Scholarship and completed a fellowship in Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement at Oxford University in England. He was an invited speaker and a visiting professor in the US and abroad, including Spain, South Africa, China and Ukraine. Also, he participated in research, presented numerous lectures and published