Newly updated this full-color text offers a rich array of features to help you develop your musculoskeletal assessment skills. Orthopedic Physical Assessment 6th Edition provides rationales for various aspects of assessment and covers every joint of the body as well as specific topics including principles of assessment gait posture the head and face the amputee primary care and emergency sports assessment. Artwork and photos with detailed descriptions of assessments clearly demonstrate assessment methods tests and causes of pathology. The text also comes with an array of online learning tools including video clips demonstrating assessment tests assessment forms and more.

• Thorough evidence-based review of orthopedic physical assessment covers everything from basic science through clinical applications and special tests.
• 2400 illustrations?include full-color clinical photographs and drawings as well as radiographs depicting key concepts along with assessment techniques and special tests.
• The use of icons to show the clinical utility of special tests supplemented by evidence - based reliability & validity tables for tests & techniques on the Evolve site
• The latest research and most current practices keep you up to date on accepted practices.
• Evidence-based reliability and validity tables for tests and techniques on the EVOLVE site provide information on the diagnostic strength of each test and help you in selecting proven assessment tests.
• A?Summary (Pr?cis) of Assessment at the end of each chapter?serves as a quick review of assessment steps for the structure or joint being assessed.
• Quick-reference data?includes hundreds of at-a-glance summary boxes???red-flag?and?yellow-flag?boxes?? differential diagnosis tables?? muscle and