Key Features • The main features of this book is 'minimum theory and maximum diagrams and flow charts' to enable the students to go through very fast and remember very easily. • Good illustrative diagrams. • Useful mnemonics to enable the students to remember easily. • Self-explanatory flow charts are made which would help to develop a concept in decision making. • A chapter on instruments with original photographs is given with great care to benefit the students during examination maximally. • The Postgraduate Medical Entrance (PGME) Examination has been also kept in mind. The various points where MCQs have been asked any time, are marked by symbol (?). • In traumatic orthopedics, the classifications and treatment are given in continuity to enable the students to understand and remember easily. • The tumors and nerves are given in simplified tabulated form to enable the students to make comparative study and remember easily. • In this edition, a new chapter "Prostheses, Orthoses and Physiotherapy" has been added to enable the students to know the essential features of rehabilitation and physiotherapy which plays a very important role in orthopedic cases.