Musculoskeletal, Sports, and Occupational Medicine: Rehabilitation Medicine Quick Reference provides the core knowledge the busy practitioner needs to deliver top-notch rehabilitative care to patients with musculoskeletal, sports, or occupational injuries. Covering 107 alphabetically arranged topics from Achilles Tendinopathy to Whiplash, this nuts and bolts resource is designed to provide concise and accurate information. The book begins with a template for evaluating a patient with musculoskeletal injury, and covers the full gamut of conditions and sequelae commonly seen by practitioners dealing with bone, joint, and soft tissue problems in athletes, injured workers, and individuals of any age with musculoskeletal issues.
Every entry is standardized for quick look-up in the office or clinic, and features description, etiology, risk factors, clinical features, natural history, diagnosis, red flags, treatment, prognosis, helpful hints and suggested readings.
Features of Rehabilitation Medicine Quick Reference series titles include:
- Comprehensive coverage of all important topics in PM&R
- Multi-specialty editorship and authorship
- Chapters are organized into succinct facts, presented in a bullet point format
- Laid out for easy look up by syndrome, complication and treatment
- Focus on clinical management provides readers with hands-on, practical guidance for all types of interventions and therapies
- Consistent approach allows readers to know exactly where to find the information they need rapidly
- "Pitfalls", "Red Flags", "Complications", and "Helpful Hints" help guard against unwanted sequelae
Designed for the busy practitioner seeking quick answers when diagnosing and treating common-and not so common- disorders. Each volume in the series focuses on a key area of rehabilitation medicine and breaks down the problems, treatments, and expected results into succinct facts, organized alphabetically and presented in bullet-point style for quick reference in the office or clinic. Whether the practitioner needs to look up a diagnostic question, neurorehabilitation complication, or sports intervention, this series provides the answers.
