Developed by orthopaedic surgeons paediatric orthopaedic surgeons and paediatricians internal medicine physicians rheumatologists and family physicians this newly revised edition updates the original extremely well-received Essentials introduced in 1997 and praised as the best book of its kind. Physicians can find quick comprehensive guidance to more than 300 musculoskeletal conditions in the nine problem-base sections: general orthopaedics; shoulder; elbow and forearm; hand and wrist; hip and thigh; knee and lower leg; foot and ankle; spine; and paediatric orthopaedics.