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• Thorough, evidence-based content provides the information and detail you need to select the best diagnostic tests.
• Extensively updated information incorporates the latest research and most current practices.
• Case Studies help you apply what you learn from the book to real life situations.
• Tables and boxes throughout the text organize and summarize important information and highlight key points.
• Chapter Summaries review the assessment procedures for each chapter to help you find important information quickly.
• Case Histories in each chapter demonstrate assessment skills to help you apply them in practice.

• Reliability and validity of tests and techniques included throughout help you choose assessment methods supported by current evidence.
• A new full-color design clearly demonstrates assessment methods, a variety of tests, and causes of pathology.
• A Companion CD-ROM with all of the references from the text linked to MedLine abstracts reinforces concepts from the book.
• Primary Care Assessment chapter includes the latest information on the constantly evolving state of physical therapy practice.
• Includes the most current information on the assessment of the cervical spine, hip, posture, and foot and ankle to keep you up to date on current methods of practice.

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Excellent Reference	Customer Rating:
This book is very good for the physical therapist or orthopedist. Full of good references and great overview of many special tests.

Outstanding reference in orthopedic examination

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The Fifth Edition of Orthopedic Physical Assessment is an outstanding reference for orthopedic physical therapists. The additional color pictures, illustrates, and upgraded tables within the chapter topics provides the reader a overview of a wealth of information. The regional and diagnose specific functional measurement/assessment tests are helpful for clinical outcome measurement data. Chapter four presents an outstanding overview of TMJ examination for an example. The chapter Appendixes with the reliability, validity, specificity, and sensitivity of special/diagnostic tests are helpful. I looked forward to seeing the 5th edition and have not been disappointed!

Good book, not the best	Customer Rating:
I thought this was an excellent exam book. I preferred Hoppenfeld's book, though there is less info. Of all the ones I've read, the best is still Pocket Guide to Musculoskeletal Diagnosis. I think Magee's is better for a reference. Pocket Guide to MSK Dx is better for daily use.

Great contribution to medical education, poor photographs

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I bought this textbook together with Ferri's Clinical advisor with great enthusiasm. Though this book has fewer contributors, it offers enormous amount of information on physical assessment. Other than the reference pages at the end of each chapter, you cannot spot a single page that does not have a drawing, a photograph, charts, tables, or tips. You cannot resist but feel great appreciation to the hard work invested in this masterpiece. In the era of Internet, when many folks opted to stay away from books, this book's style offers very competitive alternative to electronic media. The only drawback is its blurred black and white photos. Although the author attempted to compensate for such deficit by many informative drawings, yet better quality photos help contemporary readers to stay focused longer during reading. Of course, the book is about physical assessment so it stops short of complete orthopedic textbook. Each joint is discussed in terms of its applied anatomy, history taking, examination, and ends by case studies, followed by extensive lists of references. In addition to regional assessments of joints, chapters 14 and 15 discuss the assessment of gait and posture, chapter 16 of the amputee, chapter 17 of emergency sports, and chapter 18 of physical evaluation prior to participation in sport. The eighteen chapters extend over a 1000 large sized pages with two color printing, which make its reading a breathe.

Injury assessment	Customer Rating:
This book is really a great book. It is very detailed and even a lay person like me can understand it. Every condition you can think of is in it. From skin conditions to MCL ruptures. The book is very explanatory and I really like it. I reference it a lot. It comes in handy for home use too, not only professionally.