cover image - Tan's Practical Manual of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323812771
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 750
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $89.99

Tan's Practical Manual of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 3rd Edition

by Jackson C. Tan, MD, PT, PhD and Michelle Stern, MD

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cover image - Tan's Practical Manual of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323812771
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 750
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $89.99
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    • Reflects the most recent clinical practice guidelines and evidence-based medicine for the management of acute and chronic pain, spasticity, neurogenic bowel and lower urinary tract dysfunctions, venous thromboembolism, cardiovascular and chronic lower respiratory problems, and other basic PM&R problems
    • Uses a unique and comprehensive outline format with numerous acronym mnemonics to facilitate understanding of each topic and their practical application
    • Features new, updated, and expanded tables, boxes, algorithms, and figures
    • Includes fully expanded and updated chapters on joint and soft tissue injections and viscosupplementations; trigger point injections; therapeutic modalities and exercises; orthotics, prosthetics, gait aids, and robotics; wheelchairs; pharmacologic agents; neurogenic communication disorders; dysphagia; sexuality dysfunctions; immobility and hospital-associated deconditioning; pressure injuries, chronic wounds, and burns; work-related musculoskeletal conditions, and much more
    • Covers the latest diagnostic tests and functional assessment instruments, including the Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE) scale
    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
  • Part 1: PM&R Clinical Evaluation
    1. Clinical Evaluation and Documentation

    Part 2: PM&R Diagnostic Tests
    2. Laboratory Tests
    3. Noninvasive Imaging Studies
    4. Invasive Imaging Studies
    5. Electrodiagnostic Tests
    6. Musculoskeletal and Work-Related Tests
    7. Pulmonary Function Tests
    8. Exercise Tolerance Testing
    9. Functional Assessment Instruments
    10. Psychologic Tests

    Part 3: PM&R Differential Diagnoses
    11. Differential Diagnoses of Pain
    12. Differential Diagnoses of Nonpain Problems

    Part 4: PM&R Management Tools – new chapter on regenerative therapy will be added.
    13. Physical Modalities
    14. Therapeutic Exercises
    15. Orthoses
    16. Prostheses
    17. Adaptations for Activities of Daily Living
    18. Gait Aids and Gait Patterns
    19. Manual and Powered Mobililty Systems
    20. Pharmacologic Agents
    21. Joint and Soft Tissue Injections
    22. Nerve Blocks
    23. Trigger Point Injections
    24. Regenerative Therapy

    Part 5: PM&R Basic Problems
    25. Deconditioning
    26. Pressure Ulcers and Wounds
    27. Venous Thromboembolism
    28. Spasticity
    29. Neurogenic Communication Disorders
    30. Dysphagia
    31. Voiding Dysfunctions
    32. Bowel Dysfunctions
    33. Problems in Human Sexuality
    34. Acute and Chronic Pain
    35. Work-Related Musculoskeletal Problems
    36. Chronic Pulmonary Problems
    37. Cardiac Problems
    38. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

    Part 6: PM&R Appendices ONLINE ONLY
    A.
    A-1 Average range of motion for the cervical spine and upper limbs
    A-2 Average range of motion for the lumbar spine and lower limbs
    A-3 Reference values for motor nerve conduction studies
    A-4 Reference values for sensory nerve conduction studies
    A-5 Reference values for F-wave studies
    A-6 Summary of typical findings of needle electromyography in normal muscle and in neurogenic and myogenic lesions

    B.
    B-1 Sensory distribution of major peripheral nerves and dermatomes (anterior view).
    B-2 Sensory distribution of major peripheral nerves and dermatomes (posterior view).
    B-3 Diagram of motor innervation of the upper limb showing branches of the musculocutaneous and median nerves.
    B-4 Diagram of motor innervation of the upper limb showing branches of the ulnar nerve.
    B-5 Diagram of motor innervation of the upper limb showing branches of the axillary and radial nerves.
    B-6 Diagram of motor innervation of the lower limb showing branches of the femoral, obturator, and common peroneal nerves.
    B-7 Diagram of the brachial plexus.
    B-8 Diagram of the lumbosacral plexus.
    B-9 Superficial muscles of the trunk, anterior view.
    B-10 Superficial muscles of the trunk, posterior view.
    B-11 Muscles of the upper limbs.
    B-12 Muscles of the lower limbs.

    C. Normal x-rays of the head, spine, and limbs

    D. Normal MRI of the brain (axial view)

    E. Normal MRI of the brain (sagittal view)

    F. Normal MRI of the cervical spine

    G. Normal MRI of the lumbar spine

    H. ASIA classification for spinal cord injury

    I. Spinal cord syndromes

    J. Stroke syndromes

  • Jackson C. Tan, MD, PT, PhD, Medical Director, Occupational and Rehabilitation Center, Jacksonville, Florida, USA and Michelle Stern, MD, Chairman, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Health & Hospital Jacobi and North Central Bronx; Clinical Associate Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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