Description

By Robert C. Manske PT DPT SCS MEd ATC CSCS, David J. Magee BPT PhD CM

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Orthopedics**Build your skills in assessment for musculoskeletal pathology! Magee’s Orthopedic Physical Assessment, 8th Edition, covers the principles of musculoskeletal assessment for all of the body’s structures and joints, emphasizing examination, evaluation, and differential diagnosis. Other assessment topics range from gait and posture to amputees and sports emergencies. Included with purchase of the print book are hundreds of online video clips demonstrating special diagnostic tests. Written by PT educators Robert C. Manske and David J. Magee, this reference uses a systematic, evidence-based approach to prepare you for success in clinicals, board exams, and in rehabilitation practice.

Enhanced eBook version ― included with every new print purchase ― allows you to access all of the text, figures, references, and reliability and validity tables, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Plus, video clips demonstrate special tests to give you a clearer understanding of how to perform musculoskeletal assessment

More than 2,500 illustrations include full-color clinical photographs and drawings as well as radiographs, clearly depicting key concepts, assessment techniques, and special tests

Case studies use real-world scenarios to help you develop assessment and diagnostic skills

Quick-reference data includes hundreds of summary boxes, red flag and yellow flag signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis tables, new illustrated tables demonstrating methods to measure range of motion and manual muscle testing, muscle and nerve tables, and classification, normal values, and grading tables

At-a-glance icons show the clinical utility of special tests, supplemented by updated, evidence-based reliability and validity tables for tests and techniques

Précis (Summary) of Assessmentin each chapter provides a step-by-step summary of assessment procedures, serving as a quick reference of assessment steps for the structure or joint being assessed

A part of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation series ― Pathology and Interventions, Scientific Foundations and Principles of Practice, and Athletic and Sport Issues ― this book provides you with the knowledge and background necessary to assess and treat musculoskeletal conditions

NEW! Increased content on range of motion assessment and strength assessment is added to this edition

NEW! Updated content on concussion management is included in this edition

NEW! Many new special tests are added throughout the book