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Muscle and Sensory Testing

  • 4th Edition - April 21, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Nancy Berryman Reese
  • Language: English

Mastering the art of manual muscle and sensory testing is the first step on your path to becoming a physical therapist (PT). This easy-to-follow, logically organized resource in… Read more

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Mastering the art of manual muscle and sensory testing is the first step on your path to becoming a physical therapist (PT). This easy-to-follow, logically organized resource includes an overview of muscle strength assessment and precise anatomic testing techniques for upper extremities, lower extremities, and head, neck, and trunk; functional muscle tests; tests for mental status, cranial nerves, and superficial reflexes; and use of observational gait analysis as a screening tool.

Photographs of testing procedures, line drawings of various innervations, and video clips showing manual muscle testing procedures augment your understanding of this important skill area.

Key features

  • Photographs and illustrations demonstrate various techniques
    • to help you better understand positioning, stabilization, and common substitutions.
  • Chapters follow a logical progression from muscle testing to sensory testing to gait assessment, making the learning process clear.
  • Chapters on dynamometry, sensory examination, neurologic examination, and gait provide you with additional need-to-know information on these key topics.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Muscle Strength Testing

2. Techniques of Manual Muscle Testing: Upper Extremity

3. Techniques of Manual Muscle Testing: Head, Neck, and Trunk

4. Techniques of Manual Muscle Testing: Lower Extremity

5. Techniques of Functional Muscle Testing

6. Techniques of Pediatric Muscle Testing

7. Hand-held Dynamometry for Muscle Testing

8. Techniques of the Sensory Examination

9. Techniques of the Remainder of the Neurologic Examination: Coordination, Mental Status, Cranial Nerves, and Superficial Reflexes

10. Observational Gait Analysis as a Screening Tool
Appendix A: Average Joint Ranges of Motion
Appendix B: Muscle Innervations by Spinal Cord Level
Appendix C: Muscle Innervations by Peripheral Nerve
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 2, 2020
  • Language: English

About the author

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Nancy Berryman Reese

Affiliations and expertise
Dean, College of Health and Behavioral Sciences University of Central Arkansas