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Selected for 2026 Doody’s Core Titles in Orthopedics
Build your skills in the assessment of musculoskeletal pathology with Magee’s Orthopedic Physical Assessment, 8th Edition. This comprehensive reference covers the principles of musculoskeletal assessment for the body’s structures and joints, with a strong emphasis on examination, evaluation, clinical reasoning, and differential diagnosis. Additional assessment topics include gait, posture, amputee assessment, and sports emergencies.
Written by respected physical therapy educators Robert C. Manske and David J. Magee, this edition uses a systematic, evidence-based approach to help prepare students and practitioners for clinical practice, board examinations, and rehabilitation settings.
The enhanced eBook provides access to the complete text, figures, references, and reliability and validity tables. Digital features allow you to search the content, customize your reading experience, make notes and highlights, and have text read aloud.
More than 2,500 illustrations, including full-color clinical photographs, drawings, and radiographs, clearly demonstrate important concepts, assessment techniques, anatomical structures, and special tests.
Case studies present realistic clinical scenarios designed to strengthen assessment, clinical reasoning, and diagnostic skills.
Quick-reference data includes hundreds of summary boxes, red-flag and yellow-flag signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis tables, illustrated tables demonstrating methods for measuring range of motion and performing manual muscle testing, muscle and nerve tables, classifications, normal values, and grading tables.
At-a-glance icons highlight the clinical utility of special tests and are supplemented by updated, evidence-based reliability and validity tables for assessment tests and techniques.
A Précis (Summary) of Assessment in each chapter provides a step-by-step overview of assessment procedures, serving as a convenient reference for evaluating specific structures and joints.
As part of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation series — including Pathology and Interventions, Scientific Foundations and Principles of Practice, and Athletic and Sport Issues — this book provides essential knowledge and background for assessing and treating musculoskeletal conditions.
NEW! Increased coverage of range-of-motion assessment and strength assessment has been added to this edition.
NEW! Updated information on concussion management is included.
NEW! Numerous new special tests have been incorporated throughout the book.
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