Product Description: Back pain is the nation's second most common ailment, affecting 7 out of 10 people and costing $100 billion annually. In fact, back pain is responsible for more days missed from work than any other ailment.
Tarascon Pocket Orthopaedica by: Damian M Rispoli 8 used from $19.90 30 Thirdparty New from $0.29 Edition: 1st Media: Paperback EAN: 9781882742240 ISBN: 1882742249 Number Of Pages: 191 Publication Date: 2002-01-15 Publisher: Tarascon Publishing
Product Description: The Tarascon Pocket Orthopaedica is designed as the ultimate portable reference for the busy orthopaedist or primary care physician involved in orthopaedics or sports medicine. This concise, organized pocket guide is packed with essential lists, figures, & tables providing instant reminders of hard-to-remember yet vitally important clinical information. The Tarascon Pocket Orthopaedica boasts extensive high-quality original artwork detailing extremity anatomy, fracture classifications, radiologic views, and orthopaedic procedures. This pocketbook is meticulously referenced and provides expert commentary on current academic controversies within the field.
Product Description: Indispensable for exam preparation at all levels of orthopaedic training, this best-selling book has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the very latest in scientific and clinical knowledge, as well as the changing emphases on key examinations. This edition features an all-new two-color format, with dozens of new summary tables and newly commissioned diagrams tailored to facilitate exam preparation, plus a companion website with full-text search and links to PubMed for unprecedented utility and portability in exam preparation. Miller's Review of Orthopaedics is the ideal, state-of-the-art resource for efficient review of key orthopaedic knowledge!
Includes a companion website with full text search and links to PubMed and Cross Ref.
Uses a new, fresh, user-focused design and format for enhanced ease of use.
Incorporates new contributors on 40% of chapters to present fresh insights.
Incorporates material from the most recent OITE and self-assessment exams to accurately reflect the information you need to know today.
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Organizes and condenses information in a concise outline format for rapid learning.
Synthesizes critical, need-to-know material from a broad spectrum of orthopaedic literature.
Presents succinct yet thorough synopses of a wide range of key operative techniques.
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Product Description: A Davis's Notes book. OrthoNotes is an innovative, easy-to-access pocket guide of essential orthopedic information for PTs, OTs, and medical students and clinicians.
Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fifth Edition from: American Medical Association Press 1 used from $116.00 6 Thirdparty New from $126.76 Edition: 5 Sub Media: Hardcover EAN: 9781579470852 ISBN: 1579470858 Number Of Pages: 613 Publication Date: 2000-12-15 Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Product Description: The Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment has been the disability professional's reference of choice for more than three decades. The new Guides Fifth Edition delivers state-of-the-discipline information you can put to practical use in your day-to-day applications immediately. Get the most current, consensus-based, scientific and clinical information from every relevant medical specialty. It features:
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Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment from: American Medical Association Press 5 used from $171.63 20 Thirdparty New from $167.50 Edition: 6 Media: Hardcover EAN: 9781579478889 ISBN: 1579478883 Number Of Pages: 634 Publication Date: 2008-01 Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Product Description: Updated and enhanced: Guides sixth offers the most current guidelines for correct impairment evaluation
The newly revised Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, sixth edition, from the American Medical Association, emphasizes the fundamental skills physicians need to evaluate and communicate patient impairments.
Standardized methodology is applied to each chapter to enhance the relevancy of impairment ratings, improve internal consistency and promote ease of application to the rating process. This ordered method enables busy physicians to become proficient with the ratings for multiple organ systems and anticipate how each chapter is organized and assimilates information.
The sixth edition applies both terminology from and an analytical framework based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), to generate five impairment classes which permit the rating of the patient from no impairment to most severe. A diagnosis-based grid has been developed for each organ system. The grid arranges commonly used ICD-9 diagnoses within the five classes of impairment severity, according to the consensus-based dominant criterion.
Functionally based histories, physical findings and broadly accepted objective clinical test results are integrated where applicable to help physicians determine the grade within the impairment class. The result is a decision that is both transparent and reproducible.
Using the latest evidence in diagnosis and clinical tests, the new sixth edition offers the following key features:
-Standardized approach across organ systems and chapters -Expanded use of diagnostic approach to help physicians consider relevant clinical tests and patient outcomes in performing the rating -Required clinical information needed to rate a given condition -Clear step-by-step grading instructions in each chapter to promote consistent scoring of impairment ratings and to improve physician consistency -Simplified methodology presented between chapters -Contemporary, evidence-based concepts and terminology of disablement from the ICF -The latest scientific research and evolving medical opinion provided by nationally and internationally recognized experts -More comprehensive and expanded diagnostic approach -Transparent process to allow the evaluator to document functional assessment, clinical tests and physical findings -Uniform grids to help physicians calculate impairment ratings
Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Secrets (The Secrets Series) from: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 4 used from $100.00 20 Thirdparty New from $167.50 Edition: Media: Paperback EAN: 9781560534099 ISBN: 1560534095 Number Of Pages: 492 Publication Date: 2001-01 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Product Description: Oakland Univ., Rochester, MI. Concise review text includes pearls, tips, memory aids, and secrets. Bulleted text, algorithms, and illustrations for quick review. For those preparing for board exams and clinical rotations. Softcover. DNLM: Orthopedics--Examination Questions.
A complete, evidence-based guide to orthopaedic evaluation and treatment
Acclaimed in its first edition, this one-of-a-kind, well-illustrated resource delivers a vital evidence-based look at orthopaedics in a single volume. It is the ultimate source of orthopaedic examination, evaluation, and interventions, distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach to PT practice.
Turn to any page, and you'll find the consistent, unified voice of a single author-a prominent practicing therapist who delivers step-by-step guidance on the examination of each joint and region. This in-depth coverage leads clinicians logically through systems review and differential diagnosis, aided by decision-making algorithms for each joint. It's all here: everything from concise summaries of functional anatomy and biomechanics, to an unmatched overview of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems.
Handbook of Fractures by: Kenneth J Koval, Joseph D Zuckerman 8 used from $49.67 32 Thirdparty New from $50.34 Edition: 3 Media: Paperback EAN: 9780781790093 ISBN: 0781790093 Number Of Pages: 440 Publication Date: 2006-03-01 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Product Description:
Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this pocket-sized go-anywhere guide is the ideal on-the-spot reference for residents and practitioners seeking fast facts on fracture management and classification. Chapters organized by anatomic site provide key information on fractures in adults and in children, including epidemiology, anatomy, mechanism of injury, clinical evaluation, radiologic evaluation, classification, treatment, and management of complications. The book's easy-access format features numerous charts, tables, diagrams, illustrations, and bulleted lists. Two new chapters in this edition cover closed reduction, casting, and traction, and orthopaedic analgesia. Handbook of Fractures, Third Edition will also be available for PDAs. See PDA listing for details.