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Orthopedic Physical Assessment

  • 7th Edition - November 1, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: David J. Magee, Robert C. Manske
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Sports Medicine**Build your skills in the assessment of musculoskeletal pathology! Ort… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Sports Medicine**

Build your skills in the assessment of musculoskeletal pathology! Orthopedic Physical Assessment, 7th Edition covers the principles of assessment for all of the body’s structures and joints, including topics such as gait, posture, the head and face, amputees, primary care, and sports emergencies. The 7th edition offers additional functional assessment forms (e-tools), updated evidence-based reliability and validity tables, and hundreds of video clips (included with print purchase) demonstrating special tests on how to perform musculoskeletal assessment. Written by noted PT educators David J. Magee and Robert C. Manske, this reference uses a systematic, evidence-based approach to prepare you for success in clinicals, board exams, and in rehabilitation practice.

Key features

  • Over 2,500 full-color illustrations and photographs depict key concepts, along with assessment techniques and special tests
  • At-a-glance icons show the clinical utility of special tests, supplemented by updated, evidence-based reliability and validity tables for tests and techniques
  • Quick-reference data includes hundreds of summary boxes, red-flag and yellow-flag boxes, differential diagnosis tables, muscle and nerve tables, and classification, normal values, and grading tables
  • A Summary (Précis) of Assessment in each chapter serves as a review of assessment steps
  • Combined with other books in the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation seriesScientific Foundations and Principles of Practice, Pathology and Intervention, and Athletic and Sports Issues — this book provides you with the knowledge and background necessary to assess and treat musculoskeletal conditions

Readership

Physical Therapy (DPT) students. Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) students

Table of contents

1. Principles and Concepts

2. Head and Face

3. Cervical Spine

4. Temporomandibular Joint

5. Shoulder

6. Elbow

7. Forearm, Wrist, and Hand

8. Thoracic (Dorsal) Spine

9. Lumbar Spine

10. Pelvis

11. Hip

12. Knee

13. Lower Leg, Ankle, and Foot

14. Assessment of Gait

15. Assessment of Posture

16. Assessment of the Amputee

17. Primary Care Assessment

18. Emergency Sports Assessment

Product details

  • Edition: 7
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 22, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

DM

David J. Magee

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Department of Physical Therapy Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

RM

Robert C. Manske

Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Therapy, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA