The Art of Limb Alignment, Ninth Edition

Understanding limb alignment and malalignment is a critical step in treating lower extremity deformities—and correction begins with accurately characterizing the problem. This concise, beginner-focused guide draws on the authors’ 30 years of teaching limb correction surgery at the annual Baltimore Limb Deformity Course and their hands-on experiences with students. The ninth edition introduces new approaches to sagittal plane analysis, helping readers evaluate both bony deformity and the soft-tissue contribution to treatment planning.

What you'll learn

• Characterize a deformity before planning correction. Assess whether a bone is angulated, the direction of angulation, the level and apex of the deformity, its magnitude, and whether the bone is short or rotated on its axis.
• Understand the complexity of sagittal plane deformities. Chapter 5 presents new approaches to a plane that has traditionally been challenging to teach because knee range of motion adds complexity. Learn how joint motion—or its absence—can contribute to or compensate for deformity.
• Use two new angles to analyze knee motion’s influence. Explore the sagittal mechanical axes angle (SMAA) and sagittal joint line angle (SJLA), developed to analyze this confounding factor in the sagittal plane.
• Choose a soft-tissue calculation method that suits your learning style. The Seesaw Method, Formula Method, and Table Method offer three approaches spanning more visual to more mathematical ways of learning.
• Support accurate assessment and treatment strategy development. Understand why the soft-tissue contribution must be quantified to fully address and correct a deformity, and how careful evaluation with one of the three methods supports planning.
• Study excerpts from the Baltimore Limb Deformity Course Workbook. Beginning on page 243, these excerpts connect the guide with the workbook used for the course’s correction-planning workshops.

Who this is for

This guide is written for beginners starting their journey toward mastering limb alignment, particularly surgeons who treat lower extremity deformities. Intentionally short and concise, it was designed with the hope of making the material easy to master, using the theme of a student and teacher—sensei—embarking together on a voyage to learn the art of limb alignment.

Baltimore Limb Deformity Course connection

The book includes excerpts from the Baltimore Limb Deformity Course Workbook, an essential part of the planning workshops described for the Virtual 30th Annual Baltimore Limb Deformity Course, scheduled for August 2020. The course plan featured pre-recorded sessions in which world-renowned faculty would guide participants through workbook case analysis and correction strategies, followed by live sessions on August 29 and 30, 2020, for additional help with concepts and specific cases. The course website referenced in the book is www.DeformityCourse.com.

Details

• Title: The Art of Limb Alignment, Ninth Edition
• Full title referenced in the description: The Art of Limb Alignment with Excerpts from the Baltimore Limb Deformity Course Workbook
• Authors: Michael J. Assayag, Janet D. Conway, John E. Herzenberg, Philip K. McClure, Noman A. Siddiqui, Shawn C. Standard
• Brand / publisher listing: Orthopedics Library
• Publisher: Other Publisher
• Edition: 9
• Published date: September 29, 2020
• Pages: 247
• ISBN: 9798686874756

Build your foundation in limb alignment. Add this concise ninth-edition guide to your medical library and take the next step in understanding deformity analysis and correction planning.