A Practical Approach to Orthopaedic Medicine: Assessment, Diagnosis, Treatment

In the new third edition of this popular multidisciplinary text, Elaine Atkins, Jill Kerr and Emily Goodlad continue to advance the field of orthopaedic medicine. Always inspired by the work of Dr James Cyriax, this edition, renamed A Practical Approach to Orthopaedic Medicine, updates techniques and incorporates recent research discoveries into the text. There are also self assessment tasks to test your understanding of orthopaedic medicine on EVOLVE, an online electronic learning solution site designed to work alongside textbooks to stimulate clinical reasoning and to enhance learning._x000d_
The introductory chapters deal with the principles of orthopaedic medicine, with the following chapters taking the clinician through the practice of orthopaedic medicine joint by joint._x000d_
This edition includes:_x000d_
Substantially revised chapters_x000d_
Extended evidence-based commentaries underpinning indications and contraindications to treatment of spinal lesions_x000d_
Expanded critique of the treatment of peripheral joints including recent advances in the approach to tendinopathy_x000d_
Clearly described and illustrated injection and manual techniques_x000d_
New page layout for easy navigation