Physical Therapy Research Guide

A fresh approach to musculoskeletal examination instruction through the combined use of printed text (what you have before you), web-delivered self study programs (to parallel written material) with video instruction, graphics, animations and hotlinks to illustrative examples of key abnormalities plus additional web-delivered skill-building workshops (for supervised or independent hands-on practice).

Allows quick and easy access to the basic facts. The sidebars in the book emphasize the "backstories" behind some of the conditions presented. The sidebars are written to make the book a more interesting read and, more importantly, to make it easier for the reader to remember the material.

Among the new chapters in the third edition are those addressing IgG4-related disease, Whipple disease, and Paget disease. In acknowledgment of the growing attention to the lung in rheumatic diseases, we have added chapters on interstitial lung disease and pulmonary hypertension.

Early emerging disease, clinical therapeutics, and patient management, including rehabilitation.