Clinical Examination in Orthopedics

✍ Scribed by Mohan Iyer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 157
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book has been written step wise by enumerating various aspects of the importance of clinical examination derived by laying one’s hands on the affected part. By a thorough clinical examination, it can help an individual to arrive at a tentative differential diagnosis of the condition and hence help in investigating the same by numerous tests which are relevant to the given condition. The manner in which a given case is handled in this way is far more important than the diagnosis of the condition and this feature comes with practicing the same many times. It is a must for anyone embarking in life on Orthopedics as a career.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Examination for Diseases of the Bone....Pages 1-8
Examination of the Shoulder....Pages 9-18
Examination of the Elbow....Pages 19-26
Examination of the Wrist and Hand....Pages 27-46
Examination of the Hip and Pelvis....Pages 47-62
Examination of the Knee....Pages 63-80
Examination of the Foot and Ankle....Pages 81-96
Examination of the Cervical Spine....Pages 97-107
Examination of the Lumbar Spine....Pages 109-122
Examination of the Temporomandibular Joint....Pages 123-125
Examination of Gait....Pages 127-136
Back Matter....Pages 137-142

✦ Subjects

Orthopedics; Surgical Orthopedics; Conservative Orthopedics