The incredible story of Lacertus Syndrome

A captivating, interesting, funny, and thrilling tale. This book is aimed to all musculoskeletal doctors, including general practitioners, traumatologists, sports medicine physicians, radiologists, neurologists, rheumatologists, surgeons, and physiotherapists.

The comic format allows for highly visual illustrations that are memorable. dynvervology, which includes the lacertus syndrome, is currently not well-known, yet in the future, it will become selfevident to everyone. The simple explanations of sometimes difficult concepts make it an easy and fluid read. "

The author has in this book done the close-to impossible, namely illustrated and voiced his journey into understanding a commonly misunderstood and overlooked, yet exceedingly prevalent, condilon called lacertus syndrome.

The story unfolds as a tale of learning, showing through his journey and experience how bias and poor understanding lead to patient misdiagnosis and mistreatments.

"This book is about much more than lacertus syndrome. lt describes a new philosophy about how we should look at nerve compression in terms of diagnosis and surgical treatment. lt is applicable to nerve entrapment all over the body.

All medical and surgical doctors, as well as hand therapists, should take the brief plunge to read this wonderful work of art, science, and philosophy. 1 am very glad that I did. Thank you so much Vincent Martinel !!!!"

Dr Donald Lalonde, Professor of Plastic Surgery, Dalhousie University, Saint John, Canada

Who is the author of The incredible story of Lacertus Syndrome ?

Vincent Martinel is an orthopaedic surgeon who practices since 2008 at the Ormeau Pyrénées clinic in Tarbes, France. He is passionate about upper limb surgery, as well as the mountains, fishing and .... drawing.

This book has also benefited of contribution from Elisabet Hagert, Thomas Apard and Benjamin Ferembach.