Pocket Orthopaedics: Evidence-Based Survival Guide

Pocket Orthopaedics: Evidence-Based Survival Guide is a pocket guide for students in any orthopaedic course, including physicians, physical therapists and assistants, occupational therapists and assistants, chiropractors, massage therapists, and athletic trainers. With hundreds of full-color photos and illustrations, this portable, durable resource is organized in a manner that is helpful for both students and clinicians. The reader will find the information they need easily, as the information is organized by body regions, and includes medical screening differential diagnosis tables, origin, insertion, nerve supply and action of muscles. Suggestions for evaluation, post surgical rehab protocols, and evidence-based parameters for modalities are also included in this must-have guide.

Key Features:
‧Differential Diagnosis Tables
‧Evidenced-Based Special Test Selection
‧Integration of Evidence for Testing and Treatment
‧Region Specific Treatment Based Categories
‧Questions and Examination Techniques for Simplified Medical Screening

Chapter 1 Orthopaedic Physical Therapy: Nuts and Bolts
Chapter 2 Medical Screening
Chapter 3 Discovering the Patient
Chapter 4 Pain
Chapter 5 Temperomandibular Joint
Chapter 6 Cervical Region
Chapter 7 The Thoracic Region
Chapter 8 The Shoulder and Shoulder Girdle
Chapter 9 The Elbow
Chapter 10 The Wrist and Hand
Chapter 11 The Lumbar Region
Chapter 12 The Pelvic Region
Chapter 13 The Hip
Chapter 14 The Knee
Chapter 15 The Ankle and Foot
Chapter 16 Origins, Insertions, Innervations, and Actions