Clinical Reasoning in Musculoskeletal Practice

A great book by Mark A Jones, BSc(Psych), PT, GradDipManipTher, MAppSc and Darren A Rivett, BAppSc(Phty), GradDipManipTher, MAppSc(ManipPhty), PhD This new edition includes: • Comprehensively updated material and brand new chapters on pain science, psychosocial factors, and clinical prediction rules. • The latest clinical reasoning theory and practical strategies for learning and facilitating clinical reasoning skills. • Cutting-edge pain research and relevant psychosocial clinical considerations made accessible for the musculoskeletal practitioner. • The role of clinical prediction rules in musculoskeletal clinical reasoning. • 25 all new real-world, clinical cases by internationally renowned expert clinicians allowing you to compare your reasoning to that of the best.  

Contents

• Clinical Reasoning: Fast and Slow Thinking in Musculoskeletal Practice
• Understanding Pain in Order to Treat Patients in Pain
• Influence of Stress, Coping and Social Factors on Pain and Disability in Musculoskeletal Practice
• Assessment, Reasoning and Management of Psychological Factors in Musculoskeletal Practice
• Clinical Prediction Rules: Their Benefits and Limitations in Clinical Reasoning
• A Multifaceted Presentation of Knee Pain in a Forty-Year-Old Woman
• Lateral Elbow Pain with Cervical and Nerve-Related Components
• Nonspecific Low Back pain: Manipulation as the Approach to Management
• Chronic Facial Pain in a 24-Year-Old University Student: Touch-Based Therapy Accessed via Auditory Pathways
• Targeting Treatment Distally at the Foot for Bilateral Persistent Patellofemoral Pain in a 23-Year-Old: A New Answer to an Old Problem?
• Post-Partum Thoracolumbar Pain with Associated Diastasis Rectus Abdominis
• A Construction Project Manager with Insidious Onset of Lateral Hip Pain
• A Pain Science Approach to Postoperative Lumbar Surgery Rehabilitation
• A Lawyer with Whiplash
• Management of Profound Pain and Functional Deficits from Achilles Insertional Tendinopathy
• Cervicogenic Headache
• Shoulder Pain: To Operate or Not To Operate?
• Post-Traumatic Neck Pain, Headache and Knee Pain Following a Cycling Accident
• Orofacial, Nasal Respiratory and Lower Quarter Symptoms in a Complex Presentation with Dental Malocclusion and Facial Scoliosis
• Cervical Radiculopathy with Neurological Deficit
• Incontinence in an International Hockey Player
• Neck and Upper Extremity Pain in a Female Office Assistant: Where Does the Problem Lie?
• Managing a Chronic Whiplash Problem when the Patient Lives 900 Kilometres Away
• A Professional Football Career Lost: Chronic Low Back Pain in a 22-Year-Old
• Applying Contemporary Pain Neuroscience for a Patient with Maladaptive Central Sensitization Pain
• Thoracic Spine Pain in a Soccer Player: A Combined Movement Therapy Approach
• Incorporating Biomechanical Data in the Analysis of a University Student with Shoulder Pain and Scapula Dyskinesis
• Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Low Back Pain with Right-Leg Numbness in a Crop Farmer
• Physical Therapy Chosen Over Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Functional Movement Systems Approach
• A 30-Year History of Left-Sided ‘Chronic Sciatica’
• Strategies to Facilitate Clinical Reasoning Development