Movements and Orthopedic Tests: Quick, Easy, and Reliable: Volume 1

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This quick guide is designed for busy practitioners. In it they will find tests to evaluate particular structures like muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones. Tests are listed in logical order and will expedite the musculoskeletal examination process. Walter Friberg put together the optimal combination of tests that will help examination and describes how to administer each test properly. By testing particular movements, we can estimate the involvement of specific muscles, nerves, and nerve roots. This encyclopedic guide supplies medical students and practitioners with the most useful tests and articulates them in clear, concise language.