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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Physical Therapy** Gain the skills you need to accurately measure joint range of motion and muscle length! Joint Range of Motion and Muscle Length Testing, 4th Edition provides a comprehensive guide to the techniques and devices used in measuring range of motion for the joints of the spine and extremities. Clear, step-by-step instructions show how to make reliable measurements with instruments such as the goniometer, inclinometer, tape measure, and even smartphone apps. Written by noted educators Nancy Berryman Reese and William D. Bandy for physical therapy and occupational therapy students, this manual includes a fully searchable eBook version with each print purchase. Guidelines to range of motion and muscle length testing cover techniques including goniometric measurement as well as measurements using inclinometers, tape measures, and smartphone apps More than 600 full-color photos and drawings demonstrate various techniques, anatomy, and landmarks for each joint Anatomical landmarks provide a fast visual reference showing exactly where to place measuring devices Clear template for techniques allows you to quickly and easily identify the information you need Chapters on length testing make it easy to locate information on measuring each of the upper and lower extremities as well as the head, neck, and trunk NEW! Instructions for use of smartphone apps provide another option for measuring range of motion NEW! Revised content and updated references provide the current information you need to be an effective practitioner NEW! eBook version is included with print purchase. The eBook includes more than 100 videos demonstrating the ROM and muscle length testing techniques discussed in the print book, and allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

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""This book provides a wealth of information regarding the theory and practice of evaluating joint motion and muscle length. Because of this text’s comprehensiveness and its easy to read format, it would be a useful resource for students, novice and experienced clinicians, particularly physiotherapists, occupational therapists and medical practitioners."" Joint Range of Motion and Muscle Length Testing January 2010 ""[The book] if read through and through for the area of the body of interest, will give an informed and well-documented overview of the procedures for measuring that part of the anatomy, and the reliability and validity of those measures."" PMG, 2010 Vol. 27:1 ""One of the most comprehensive range of motion and muscle length texts on the market... a great reference text for a busy orthopedic practice."" Physical Therapy Reviews, March 2011

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