Current Diagnosis and Treatment Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ORIGINAL PDF)

Maximize your patients’ independence, quality of life, mobility, and functional improvement with this evidence-based guide to physical medicine and rehabilitation

Valuable to practicing physicians, residents,

medical students, as well as recertifying psychiatrists

Includes timely chapters on sports, trauma, cardiac, and spinal rehabilitation

Covers therapeutic exercise and treatment modalities

for pain and dysfunction

• Presents a practical approach to the physical medicine and rehabilitation patient, including common pathologies and complications
• Focuses on the clinical aspects of physical medicine and rehabilitation with an emphasis on evidence-based medicine
• Lays down a foundation of anatomy, kinesiology, and biomechanics before progressing to therapeutic exerciseand modalities
• Reviews diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed by physicians such as electrodiagnostics, musculoskeletal ultrasound, and spine and joint injections
• Concludes with a comprehensive review of major primary care issues