A comprehensive guide to selecting diagnostic tests that lead to accurate assessment of the musculoskeletal system. This book covers everything from anatomy to clinical application. Topics include evaluation principles for all peripheral and spinal joints, including the head and face, walking, body posture, primary care, amputations, and emergency assessment.

Key features:
- Updated information in all chapters, with new photos, line drawings, boxes of important information, and tables.
- Use of images for specific tests supplemented with tables.
- 2400 color images illustrate key concepts along with assessment techniques and specific tests.
- Case studies based on real scenarios to help the reader develop skills in assessment and diagnosis.
- Summary of assessment in each chapter serves as a review of the steps followed during evaluation.
- Quick reference data includes hundreds of summary frames, red flag and yellow flag frames, differential diagnosis tables, muscle and nerve classification tables, normal value tables, and classification tables.
- In combination with other books in the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation series - Pathology and Intervention, the scientific foundations and principles of practice, and sports and athletics - this book provides the clinician with the knowledge and background necessary for the assessment and management of musculoskeletal disorders.