Orthopedic Physical Assessment - E-Book, 6th Edition

The 6th edition of Orthopedic Physical Assessment provides a comprehensive and engaging approach to developing your musculoskeletal assessment skills. This full-color text offers a wealth of features, including detailed illustrations, evidence-based information, and interactive online tools, to help you confidently assess and diagnose musculoskeletal conditions.

New to this Edition:

• Interactive Online Resources: Enhance your learning with video clips, assessment forms, text references linked to MEDLINE® abstracts, and more.
• Video Demonstrations: Visualize assessment tests and techniques with new video clips.
• Easy Access to Research: Delve deeper into the evidence with text references linked to MEDLINE abstracts.
• Printable Forms: Download and use patient assessment forms directly from the text.
• Updated Content: Stay current with updated information, photos, line drawings, boxes, and tables throughout.
• Clinical Utility Icons: Quickly identify the clinical utility of special tests with icons and evidence-based reliability & validity tables on the Evolve site.

Key Features:

• Evidence-Based Approach: Learn from a thorough, evidence-based review of orthopedic physical assessment, covering basic science, clinical applications, and special tests.
• Visual Learning: Master assessment techniques with 2,400 illustrations, including clinical photographs, drawings, and radiographs.
• Current Practices: Stay up-to-date with the latest research and most current practices in musculoskeletal assessment.
• Diagnostic Tools: Utilize evidence-based reliability and validity tables on the EVOLVE site to select proven assessment tests.
• Concise Reviews: Quickly review key assessment steps with summaries at the end of each chapter.
• Quick-Reference Data: Access essential information with at-a-glance summary boxes, red-flag and yellow-flag boxes, differential diagnosis tables, and more.
• Real-World Application: Develop your assessment and diagnostic skills with case studies that use real-world scenarios.
• Comprehensive Series: Combine this book with other titles in the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation series for a complete understanding of musculoskeletal assessment and treatment.