Merriman's Assessment of the Lower Limb

by Yates, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780080451077
• ISBN10: 0080451071
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-10
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

Summary

ASSESSMENT OF THE LOWER LIMB is the benchmark textbook of lower limb examination and assessment. The third edition preserves the lucidity, logical approach and comprehensive coverage of its predecessors but adds many new exciting features, including an all-new colour design, colour line drawings, new contributors, thorough updating of all chapters - many of which have been completely rewritten - and an entirely new chapter on functional assessment. The DVD provides extensive videos of assessment techniques and illustrations: practitioners with patients and models show how to assess all parts of the lower limb, and evaluate various conditions. DVD incorporating videos and illustrations: invaluable footage of assessment techniques downloadable full-colour figures and extra radiological photographs Many new contributors bringing fresh expertise and insights for today's student All chapters thoroughly rewritten and updated New chapter on functional assessment All-new colour design Case histories help put learning in context

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Approaching the patient	p. 1
Assesment	p. 2
The assessment interview	p. 10
The presenting problem	p. 25
Health outcome assessment	p. 33
Systems examination	p. 53
The medical and social history	p. 54
Vascular assessment	p. 75
Neurological assessment	p. 119
Dermatological assessment	p. 164
Footwear assessment	p. 201
Musculoskeletal assessment	p. 225
Orthopaedic Assessment of the Lower Limb	p. 225
Functional Assessment	p. 273
Laboratory and hospital investigations	p. 307
Methods of analyzing gait	p. 308
Diagnostic imaging	p. 321
Laboratory tests	p. 365
Specific client groups	p. 387
Assessment of the paediatric patient	p. 388
Assessment of the sports patient	p. 422
Assessment of the older person	p. 443
The painful foot	p. 469
Assessment of the at-risk foot	p. 499
Assessment of the surgical patient	p. 529
Index	p. 545
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