Musculoskeletal Disease and Obesity. Multi-disciplinary Interventions

This book provides short chapters with key learning points from experts within the area, about musculoskeletal conditions in patients with obesity. Each chapter will be structured in two parts: (a) the increasing musculoskeletal conditions caused by the obesity and (b) the difficulty of treating the musculoskeletal conditions in the presence of obesity.

It is aimed at a multidisciplinary readership including clinicians, physiotherapists, rehabilitation specialists, general practitioners and sports physicians, and other allied health professionals involved in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.

• Combines a multidisciplinary approach to this difficult, challenging and more prevalent problem
• Provides evidence of the increasingly recognised high incidence of musculoskeletal disease in obese patients
• Examines challenges in managing, both conservatively and surgically, musculoskeletal diseases in obese patients