Magee’s Orthopedic Physical Assessment

• Enhanced eBook version — included with every new print purchase — allows you to access all of the text, figures, references, and reliability and validity tables, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Plus, video clips demonstrate special tests to give you a clearer understanding of how to perform musculoskeletal assessment.
• More than 2,500 illustrations include full-color clinical photographs and drawings as well as radiographs, clearly depicting key concepts, assessment techniques, and special tests.
• Case studies use real-world scenarios to help you develop assessment and diagnostic skills.
• Quick-reference data includes hundreds of summary boxes, red flag and yellow flag signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis tables, new illustrated tables demonstrating methods to measure range of motion and manual muscle testing, muscle and nerve tables, and classification, normal values, and grading tables.
• At-a-glance icons show the clinical utility of special tests, supplemented by updated, evidence-based reliability and validity tables for tests and techniques.
• Précis (Summary) of Assessment in each chapter provides a step-by-step summary of assessment procedures, serving as a quick reference of assessment steps for the structure or joint being assessed.
• A part of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation series — Pathology and Interventions, Scientific Foundations and Principles of Practice, and Athletic and Sport Issues — this book provides you with the knowledge and background necessary to assess and treat musculoskeletal conditions.

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