The first book on "Metabolic Tendon Disorders"

A comprehensive account of the basic biology of tendons

A comprehensive account of the metabolic influences on risk for tendon disorders

Preface.- Part I Basic Biology and Anatomy.- Chapter 1. Tendon structure and composition - Thorpe, Screen.- Chapter 2. Blood supply - Kubu.- Chapter 3. Tendon Innervation - Karolinska/ Calgary.- Chapter 4. Tendon stem cells - J. Wang.- Chapter 5. Informing Stem Cell-Based Tendon Tissue Engineering Approaches with Embryonic Tendon Development - C. Kuo.- Chapter 6. Tendon cell signaling - A. Banes.- Chapter 7. Methods of assessing human tendon metabolism. - Kjaer, Magnusson.- Part II Tendon Disorders Associated with Altered Metabolism and Metabolic Disorders.- Chapter 8. Towards an understanding of the genetics of tendinopathy - September A.- Chapter 9. Tendons involvement in Congenital Metabolic metabolic disorders - Andia I.- Chapter 10. Hyperuricemia - Isabel Andia, Abate .- Chapter 11. Influence of Thyroid hormones on tendon homeostasis - Francesco Oliva.- Chapter 12. Sex hormones and tendon - Mette Hansen, M. Kjaer.- Chapter 13. Tendon Homeostasis in Hypercholesterolemia - Louis Soslowsky.- Chapter 14. How Obesity affects tendons - Michele Abate.- Chapter 15.- Does diabetes affect Tendon healing - A. Ahmed.- Chapter 16. Metalloproteinase changes in diabetes - Bento.- Chapter 17. How high glucose levels affect tendon homeostasis - Snedeker.- Chapter 18. Rehabilitation of tendon problems in patients with diabetes mellitus - A. Scott.- Chapter 19. Inflammation in tendon disorders - C. Speed.- Chapter 20. Deep venous thrombosis and tendon healing - E. Arverud.- Chapter 21. Drug induced tendon disorders - K. Knobloch.- Chapter 22. Glucocorticoid effects on tendon metabolism - Dean and Carr.- Chapter 23. Influence of Ageing on tendon homeostasis - Helen Birch, Clegg PD.- Part III Novel therapies that may affect tendon metabolism.- Chapter 24. Does platelet-rich plasma increase tendon metabolism? - de Vos.- Chapter 25.- Can shockwave therapy improve tendon metabolism? - Zwerver. Chapter 26.-Do dietary factors influence tendon metabolism? A. Scott.- Part IV Summary. - Chapter 27. General overview and summary of concepts - P. Ackermann, Dave Hart.