All About Bones: An Owner's Manual [Paperback]

Irwin M. Siegel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 1888799161 | ISBN-13: 978-1888799163 | Edition: 1

This very practical book reviews such subjects as exercise, back and neck care, athletic injuries, foot care, fractures, posture, and much more. It will teach readers how to keep bones and joints healthy and functioning at top form. All About Bone is a comfortable exposition of everything the reader might want to know or need to know about this most important part of your body. All About Bone provides under a single cover an easily read and understood collation of material available from numerous books, articles, and other reference sources.

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Orthopedic surgeon and teacher Siegel combines both aspects of his career in a popular account of what bone is, what it does, and how it goes wrong that will help patients and inform those who simply want, as Siegel says, to bone up on an interesting subject. After describing how bone is formed, Siegel writes about osteoporosis, fractures, and other common diseases and injuries. He then turns to various portions of the skeletal system, showing how they work, what problems can result, and how those can be treated. Each chapter ends with a series of questions and answers--not simple, little nothings to fill space, but, rather, stimulating questions that have to be answered in some depth, thereby reinforcing the preceding material as well as making readers do some thinking. Siegel discusses various treatments, including exercise and improving posture, nondogmatically, and he brings in enough history and anecdotes to liven things up: does the typical reader know, for example, why ministering angels have no knees? Read and learn. William Beatty

About the Author

Irwin M Siegel MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurological Sciences at the Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Centre, Chicago, Illinois.

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Demos Health; 1 edition (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888799161
• ISBN-13: 978-1888799163
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #870,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars This has nothing to do with Osteopathy !, July 19, 1998

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This review is from: All About Bones: An Owner's Manual (Paperback)

This is not really a book review, but a warning that if you're looking for books on Osteopathy, as I was, this has nothing to do with that topic. The science and Medicine of Osteopathy is that which was founded by Andrew Taylor Still, M.D. in 1872. He later, in 1892 founded the first Osteopathic school of medicine in Kirksville, MO. His Osteopathic Medicine was conceived as an alternative to the then horrible medicine of the day which consisted of giving mostly very toxic substances such as mercury to "cure" diseases. He invented a unique form of manipulation, which D.D. Palmer (the founder of Chiropractic) learned part of from him, then went off to another state to declare 2 years later that he had invented Chiropractic. (Chiropractic is a subset of the manipulative techniques of Osteopathic Medicine, and does not include the current ability to write prescriptions and do surgery which Osteopathic Physicians also have.) This book is about Orthopedic surgery! and bones, Osteopathy is about all of medicine and the manipulation (sometimes) of bones, which is why the "osteo" is in the title. Osteopathic Physicians can become Orthopedic Surgeons if they wish, but they are not interchangeable terms. 'Nuf said.