Product Description
Integrative Orthopedics is more than 430 pages of intensely referenced wellness promotion for doctors who manage patients with acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries. Although the book reviews all of the important physical examinations, laboratory and imaging assessments that are commonly used in clinical practice and also presents detailed treatment plans for a wide range of conditions, the ultimate goal of the book is to be much more than an orthopedics textbook. It is designed to help doctors step beyond "problem solving" and into "wellness promotion" by giving doctors the information and concepts that they need to upgrade their treatment plans from being simply "restorative" to truly "transformative." Includes information and dosing for common nutritional supplements and botanical medicines, as well as an extensively detailed section on fatty acid metabolism and eicosanoid modulation. Written by Dr. Alex Vasquez, a licensed chiropractic and naturopathic physician and former Adjunct Professor of Rheumatology and Orthopedics for the Naturopathic Medicine program at Bastyr University.
About the Author
With a dual career as a clinician and a researcher/writer/presenter, Dr. Alex Vasquez has published articles and letters in most major healthcare journals, including JAMA, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Alternative Therapies, Nutritional Perspectives, and Arthritis & Rheumatism, which is the official journal of the American College of Rheumatology. As a columnist for Nutritional Wellness and Editor for Naturopathy Digest, Dr. Vasquez gives post-graduate seminars to doctors in North America and Europe. Dr. Vasquez is currently pursuing his third doctoral degree at University of North Texas Health Science Center. His first textbook, Integrative Orthopedics, was published in 2004, and his second book, Integrative Rheumatology, was published in 2006. Both books provide detailed diagnostic and interventional protocols that are intensely referenced to the peer-reviewed biomedical literature.









