Product Description

Make quick, confident decisions at each stage of diagnosis and patient management. Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care now offers printable rehabilitation instructions, full-screen video demonstrations of injection techniques, and more!
The new 3rd Edition and DVD-Supplement enable you to:

• Learn injection techniques with full-screen, narrated video demonstrations
• Enhance recovery with detailed rehabilitation instructions and exercises for patients on personalized, printable forms
• Make better decisions with more images, many in full color, including Netter anatomy drawings . . . and new topics, including Fracture Healing, Compartment Syndrome of the Knee, UCL Tears, and much more!
• Sharpen physical examination techniques with full-screen, step-by-step video demonstrations
• Plus! Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes

Make quick, confident decisions at each stage of diagnosis and patient management for more than 300 musculoskeletal conditions.

Fast Answers EssentialsÂ’ problem/solution format and concise content deliver the information you need quickly and easily.

Visual Confirmation Hundreds of photographs, radiographs, and diagrams show you what to look for. Narrated, full-screen video demonstrations show you injection and physical examination techniques

Confident Decision Making Diagnostic thinking flows logically and efficiently. Each section reflects the patient care process: Definition; Symptoms; Tests; Differential Diagnosis; Treatment; Adverse Outcomes; Referral Decision; Red flags

Multidisciplinary Perspective The best minds in pediatrics and orthopaedics bring you this new 3rd Edition Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care is the first resource you will reach for!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8739 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1053 pages

From the Publisher
CPT® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

Customer Reviews

Military Doc's must have it
As a Flight Surgeon in the Army, I have traveled with this text from Korea to Bosnia. It is a must have for anyone in Primary care and especially military physicians on deployments, where Orthopedic surgeons are hard to come by. It is a clear, consice treatment based book. Which guides you through the physical examination, diagnosis and managment of common orthopedic problems. In particular it lets you know what the red flags are for further evaluation and consultation. Truly Magnificent!

Excellent text for primary care
After dismissing many books over the years as unsuitable for primary care for various reasons, my orthopedic colleagues at Group Health asked me to review this text as the one book which they have found which provides a comprehensive, well illustrated, clinically appropriate source for primary care. I was not disappointed. I found a useful book which provided the information I needed to know about the common musculoskeletal presentations in primay care,and sufficient information and caution about the less common ones. I was particularly impressed by the pediatric section, but as I used the index to look up the common diagnoses, I found that the information the book provided was appropriate for a wide range of conditions. The photographs and illustrations are consistent and readable. The information about primary care office management and the details of exam, splinting, exercise, and injection techniques is thorough This book provides a good textbook review of the subject and a useful, ready reference for the office bookshelf. I would therefore recommend it for primary care.

The best primary care orthopedic text on the market
Straightforward, to-the-point, very relevant for the busy outpatient clinic. My other orthopedic texts are collecting dust. Worth every penny. The only criticism I have of the text is their scanty, incomplete coverage of osteoporosis. This section is too cursory and out-of-date. It barely addresses densiometry and doesn't mention newer therapies such as alendronate in the treatment of osteoporosis. The emergence of alendronate predates the publication of this volume by at least 2 years so advancing medical science is not an excuse. My suggestion for future additions is to eliminate the osteoporosis section and leave it to an internal medicine text and include more fracture management in its place--even the management of osteoporotic fractures. Any section in this book should be able to stand alone in terms of being able to render appropriate evaluation and treatment guidelines without having to consult additional texts. The chapter on osteoporosis fails in this regard.