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Red Flags II

A guide to solving serious pathology of the spine

  • 1st Edition - September 22, 2009
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Sue Greenhalgh, James Selfe
  • Language: English

The perfect companion to the successful RED FLAGS: A GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING SERIOUS SPINAL PATHOLOGY by Sue Greenhalgh and James Selfe, this new pocketbook guides the practitioner… Read more

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The perfect companion to the successful RED FLAGS: A GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING SERIOUS SPINAL PATHOLOGY by Sue Greenhalgh and James Selfe, this new pocketbook guides the practitioner through solving serious spinal pathologies. RED FLAGS II expands on some of the concepts outlined in the first book and gives advice on appropriate investigations. It retains a strong clinical focus through the use of multiple case histories of real patients with serious pathology of the spine. Readers are given the opportunity to utilise clinical reasoning processes as they work through these case histories.

Key features

  • Updated hierarchical list of Red Flags
  • Summary identifying key findings Red Flags and Red Herrings
  • Multiple real patient case histories
  • Management pathways
  • Presentation of secondary cases

Readership

Physiotherapists, especially those who work as autonomous first contact assessors; recent graduates

Table of contents

1 Clinical Reasoning2 Evidence Base for Red Flags3 Extra-pulmonary Spinal Tuberculosis4 Cauda Equina Syndrome5 Cancer6 Serious Pathology Fractures7 Red Herrings8 Investigations in Serious Pathology of the Spine

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 5, 2009
  • Language: English

About the authors

SG

Sue Greenhalgh

Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Physiotherapist

JS

James Selfe

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Physiotherapy, Department of Health Professions, Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care, Manchester Metropolitan University

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