Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Musculoskeletal Disorders, Pain, and Rehabilitation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780443235160)

Clinically focused, practical, and up to date, Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 5th Edition, helps you prevent, diagnose, and treat a wide range of musculoskeletal disorders, pain syndromes, and chronic disabling conditions in day-to-day patient care. This concise text uses an easy-to-navigate format that provides quick access to well-illustrated coverage of every essential topic in the field. It offers a distinct outpatient focus for rehabilitation professionals including, but not limited to, physicians and physicians-in-training who need to quickly review topics and health conditions.

• Provides the up-to-date information you need on both traditional and cutting-edge interventions, designing effective treatment and rehabilitation plans, and working with interdisciplinary teams that meet your patients' current and changing needs
• Presents each topic in a consistent, quick-reference format that includes a description of the condition (including ICD-10 diagnostic codes), discussion of symptoms, examination findings, functional limitations, and diagnostic testing. An extensive treatment section covers initial therapies, rehabilitation interventions, ultrasound-guided and other minimally invasive procedures, and surgery
• Includes new content on musculoskeletal conditions, regenerative rehabilitation, evolving health conditions such as long COVID, and more
• Contains current information in every treatment area where recently developed technologies or devices have been added to the therapeutic and rehabilitation strategies, including robotic exoskeletons, wearable sensors, and more
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

Author: Walter R. Frontera
ISBN-10: 0443235163
ISBN-13: 9780443235160
Publisher: Elsevier
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2025
Pages: 950
Format: Hardcover