Merriman's Assessment of the Lower Limb
- 3rd Edition - January 17, 2012
- Editor: Ben Yates
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 5 2 4 7 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 5 0 6 2 - 6
Assessment of the Lower Limb is the benchmark textbook of lower limb examination and assessment. The third edition preserves the lucidity, logical approach and comprehensive covera… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAssessment of the Lower Limb is the benchmark textbook of lower limb examination and assessment. The third edition preserves the lucidity, logical approach and comprehensive coverage of its predecessors but adds many new exciting features, including an all-new design, new contributors, thorough updating of all chapters – many of which have been completely rewritten – and an entirely new chapter on functional assessment. The DVD provides extensive videos of assessment techniques and illustrations: practitioners with patients and models show how to assess all parts of the lower limb, and evaluate various conditions.Together with its companion volume Clinical Skills in Treating the Foot, the third edition of Merriman’s Assessment of the Lower Limb is a truly indispensable guide for podiatry students and practitioners, as well as trainee general practitioners, medical students working in rheumatology, diabetology and orthopaedics, sports therapists and sports medicine trainees.
- DVD incorporating videos and illustrations:
- invaluable footage of assessment techniques
- downloadable full-colour figures and extra radiological photographs
- Many new contributors bringing fresh expertise and insights for today’s student
- All chapters thoroughly rewritten and updated
- New chapter on functional assessment
- All-new design
- Case histories help put learning in context
Student podiatrists, practising podiatrists
Part 1. Approaching the patient*Assessment*The assessment interview*The presenting problem*Health outcome assessmentPart 2. Systems examination*The medical and social history*Vascular assessment*Neurological assessment*Dermatological assessment *Footwear assessment*Musculoskeletal assessment:A. Orthopaedic assessment of the lower limbB. Functional assessmentPart 3. Laboratory and hospital investigations*Methods of analysing gait*Diagnostic imaging*Laboratory testsPart 4. Specific client groups*Assessment of the paediatric patient*Assessment of the sports patient*Assessment of the older person*The painful foot*Assessment of the at-risk foot*Assessment of the surgical patientDVD:*Vascular assessment*Neurological assessment(Musculoskeletal assessment*Diagnostic imaging*The painful foot*The at-risk foot*Image library
- No. of pages: 588
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: January 17, 2012
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702052477
- eBook ISBN: 9780702050626
BY
Ben Yates
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Podiatric Surgeon, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Great Western Hospital, Swindon, UK