Introduction

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.

Author and Purpose

Walter Friberg put together the optimal combination of tests that will help examination and describes how to administer each test properly.

Testing and Evaluation

By testing of particular movements we can estimate involvement of particular muscles, nerves, and nerve roots.

Audience and Utility

This encyclopedic guide supplies Medical students and practitioners with the most useful tests and articulates them in clear, concise language.