Pocket Guide to Musculoskeletal Assessment - Softcover

A quick-reference guide to neuromusculoskeletal evaluations. This handy, pocket-sized reference provides critical information on the physical examination, special tests, and basic treatment options for common conditions in an outline format for every body area. Includes at-a-glance tables containing indications and contraindications for specific physical therapy modalities.

Designed to assist health-care providers perform well-organized, efficient and thorough neuromusculoskeletal examinations, this text is organized by major body region. For each musculoskeletal area - as well as for specific respiratory, cardiac, amputee, neurologic and acute inpatient orthopaedic problems - it presents subjective and objective evaluation outlines, diagnostic tests for specific pathologies, and basic treatment options for the most common conditions. Charts present the appropriate diagnostic tests for each area, explain what each test is meant to detect, describe how the test is performed, identify how to recognize a positive result, and indicate treatment options. Reference tables display indications and contraindications for physical agents. Appendices offer quick reference to dermatomes, sclerotomes, auscultation sites and lung borders, normal ranges of motion, a ligament laxity grading scale, capsular pattern and closed pack positions of joints, radiology, physical agents/ modalities, traction, common laboratory results, and abbreviations and definitions.