Okay, everybodee (as Grover would say), it’s time for some exercise! So shake a leg—and every other limb—to get warmed up for some fitness and fun. Toddlers will have a good giggle as the Sesame monsters try different routines to get in shape. They can even follow along and get their own kid-sized workout—if they don’t fall down laughing instead!
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores an era of American innocene and corruption in the first novel in his Albany cycle. “The best novel about a criminal legend I've ever read.”—Hunter S. Thompson True to both life and legend, Legs brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s. William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle of novels reflect what he once described as the fusion of his imagination with a single place. A native and longtime resident of Albany, New York, his work moves from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, chronicling family life, the city’s netherworld, and its spheres of power—financial, ethnic, political—often among the Irish-Americans who dominated the city in this period. The novels in his cycle include, Legs, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Ironweed, Quinn’s Book, Very Old Bones, The Flaming Corsage, and Roscoe.
Bridging the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate knowledge and experience, this new full colour resource uses an interdisciplinary approach to help manage chronic conditions – osteoarthritis, Achilles tendinopathy, gout, rheumatic diseases, forefoot/rearfoot entities, stress fractures/reactions, cerebral palsy – in the lower limb and foot. Each chapter includes sections on predisposing factors, diagnosis, impairments, function, quality of life and management strategies while highlighting any complex features of a condition which may present. The latest advances are discussed with suggestions for new paths of research – 'future directions'. The text is further supported by additional commentaries from internationally renowned researchers who highlight the key elements of the work and provide a supplementary perspective of the particular clinical condition. A general view of the patient's needs is offered throughout, connecting clinical realities to real-world patient experiences. Management of Chronic Conditions in the Foot and Lower Leg is a comprehensive, practical tool that can be used to inform daily decision making in practice as well as to support those who build policy and management strategies in the clinical areas covered. - Clear content and structure supported by full colour illustrations - Includes less discussed conditions such as gout and cerebral palsy - Focus on pain, impairment, function, quality of life and management strategies - Critical reflections by experts highlight current clinical practice and thinking in research - Provides a sound interpretation of research findings - Features patient-reported outcome measures and health related behaviour strategies
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee. At first sight of Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world. Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo’s art, Rapp Black recognized her own life, from the numerous operations to the compulsion to create to silence pain. Here she tells her story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs, giving birth to a daughter, and learning to accept her body. She writes of how Frida Kahlo inspired her to find a way forward when all seemed lost. Book cover image: Frida Kahlo, prosthetic limb. Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Archives. Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust.
This essay sheds light on the what is leg lengthening surgery, demystifies the benefits of getting leg lengthening surgery, and explicates why undergoing leg lengthening surgery is a worthwhile investment. Leg lengthening surgery is a type of limb lengthening surgery that ultimately allows you to increase your height. Once the growth plates have fused, undergoing leg lengthening surgery is the only option for adults to avail themselves of in order be able to amplify their height. Leg lengthening surgery cannot only be undergone for the purpose of correcting uneven leg heights to close the height gap between height disparities in legs, but also can be undergo for the purpose of significantly amplifying the person’s height. Undergoing leg lengthening surgery is able “to stimulate bone growth in the legs” which thereby increases a person’s height. As part of the leg lengthening surgical procedure, several surgeries are often performed not only on the legs, but also on “the tendons in the legs” in order to “stimulate bone growth”. Undergoing leg lengthening surgical procedures can render a person a maximum height of six to eight inches taller if they are willing to undergo leg lengthening surgery on the femurs and then undergo leg lengthening surgery on the tibias. A person has the latent potential to be able to significantly amplify his height if he opts to undergo leg lengthening surgical procedures. Undergoing leg lengthening surgery is not without its inherit risks and adverse health complications. Undergoing leg lengthening surgery can induce “joint stiffness, soft tissue tightness, skin pain”, and can also render a person at a heightened risk for succumbing to bone fractures. Additionally, undergoing leg lengthening surgery can render a person at a higher risk of contracting an infection. Furthermore, undergoing leg lengthening surgery can cause “broken bones, blood clots, swelling, blood vessel injuries, nerve injuries, scarring, and can induce complex regional pain syndrome”. Moreover, additional adverse health complications can ensue from undergoing leg lengthening surgery if you adversely react to the anesthesia provided, if you damage the fixator, and if you experience delayed bone healing. Most people however staunchly believe that the benefits of amplifying their height preponderantly outweigh the risks involved with undergoing leg lengthening surgery. There are two disparate surgical approaches that surgeons can utilize to perform leg lengthening surgery. Both of these surgical approaches are ineffably painful to experience the brunt of first-hand. One surgical approach to perform leg lengthening surgery entails “applying pins and a frame outside the leg called an external fixator”. The other surgical approach to perform leg lengthening surgery involves “inserting a an intramedullary nail into the bone. The intramedullary nail can be lengthened over time to support bone growth and elongation”. Both of these aforementioned surgical approaches to perform leg lengthening can induce acute, insufferable pain for months on end. Undergoing leg lengthening surgery is not for the faint of heart. The typical surgical approach to perform leg lengthening surgery involves “cutting the bone in a key area, applying metal pins and screws in the bone, and attaching external metal devices to the pins. The ‘fixators’ are able help to pull the cut area of the bone apart in order to stimulate new bone growth. The success rate for limb-lengthening surgery is about 95%, according to the Hospital for Special Surgery”. Fortunately, the probability of having leg lengthening surgery achieve the outcome of an amplification in the length of a person’s legs is eminently high. After undergoing leg lengthening surgery a person will often acquiesce to undergoing physical therapy. Post undergoing leg lengthening surgery, the patient may need to perform physical therapy exercises in order to be able “to improve his activity levels”. Performing physical therapy exercises can potentially help patients to “maintain their strength and mobility”. Furthermore, performing physical therapy exercises can also potentially help patients to “normalize their walking, prevent excess scar tissue building, and improve their range of motion”. Moreover, performing physical therapy exercises can also potentially help patients to be able to better “manage pain and swelling”.
New updated edition first published with Cambridge University Press. This new edition includes 29 chapters on topics as diverse as pathophysiology of atherosclerosis, vascular haemodynamics, haemostasis, thrombophilia and post-amputation pain syndromes.
