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The best-selling ""Special Tests for Orthopedic Examination"" has been updated into a contemporary third edition. This concise, pocket-sized handbook is a valuable guide filled with the most current and practical clinical exam techniques used during an orthopedic examination. This third edition takes a simplistic approach to visualizing and explaining more than 150 commonly used orthopedic special tests, including 11 new and modern tests. Readers benefit from the spiral, lay-flat binding and new color elements. Clear and concise text is coupled with effective photographs clearly labeled with arrows to illustrate proper subject and clinician positioning and directional movement. Jeff G. Konin, Denise Wiksten, Jerome Isear, and Holly Brader organize ""Special Tests for Orthopedic Examination, Third Edition"" by regions of the body for easy reference. Positive results and special considerations are identified for each test, as they relate to the examination process. Students, clinicians, and rehabilitation professionals will enhance their ability to interpret and evaluate their findings. The features include: 11 new tests added to the existing 150, including the Dial Test, Lateral Scapular Slide Test, Crank Test, and Posterior Impingement Test; descriptive text presented in a concise manner; evidence-based references; detailed descriptions of each special test component - test positioning, action, and positive findings; black and white photographs, illustrating the proper subject and clinician positioning, with arrows used to depict proper force and direction for each test; and user-friendly spiral, lay-flat binding. Join thousands of your colleagues, fellow students, and educational leaders, and add ""Special Tests for Orthopedic Examination, Third Edition"" to your collection today.

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This manual is the premier pocket guide to assist students and practitioners in recalling what has been learned in the academic setting or on the playing field. From the student who is just starting out to the well-seasoned orthopedic expert, this information is easy to access as a quick reference and comprehensive in content. It will help athletic trainers, physical therapists, family physicians and other health care professionals who care for this population. -- Kristen Kwiatkowski-Digwood, Advance for Physical Therapists & PT Assistants This text, authored by both physical therapists and athletic trainers, is intended to provide a condensed guide for the examination of people with orthopedic injuries. In my opinion, this goal has been surpassed... Significant improvements from the first and second edition are evident. The authors have removed tests not supported by the literature and replenished this third edition with relevant, special tests with greater scientific support... The book's new spiralbound design facilitates practical use, allowing the reader to lay the text wide open while performing or practicing a test.... This text offers much information to those clinicians with limited experience in orthopedic examination. With the addition of peer-reviewed references for each test and new or contemporary tests, even the experienced orthopedic clinician will find this text useful. Its organization and ease of use are very appealing features. I recommend this text to anyone involved in the examination of orthopedic injury. -- James W. Bellew, PT, EdD, Physical Therapy This book would be well-suited for an orthopaedic examination course in an athletic training curriculum... the information in this text is helpful for athletic trainers at all levels and would be a nice textbook to have in a clinical setting as a quick reference... this is a valuable resource. -- Jill M. Thein-Nissenbaum, MPT, SCS, ATC, NATA News The best features of the book are its design

This manual is the premier pocket guide to assist students and practitioners in recalling what has been learned in the academic setting or on the playing field. From the student who is just starting out to the well-seasoned orthopedic expert, this information is easy to access as a quick reference and comprehensive in content. It will help athletic trainers, physical therapists, family physicians and other health care professionals who care for this population. -- Kristen Kwiatkowski-Digwood, Advance for Physical Therapists & PT Assistants This text, authored by both physical therapists and athletic trainers, is intended to provide a condensed guide for the examination of people with orthopedic injuries. In my opinion, this goal has been surpassed... Significant improvements from the first and second edition are evident. The authors have removed tests not supported by the literature and replenished this third edition with relevant, special tests with greater scientific support... Th

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