The Second Edition of this highly respected and well-established guide to lower limb examination and assessment provides completely revised and comprehensive coverage of the subject.

The extensive updating for this new edition takes into account developments in the subject at undergraduate level and ensures that students, newly qualified podiatrists, physiotherapists and all those involved in the diagnosis of foot problems have at their disposal a thoroughly modern text which will continue to be their indispensable diagnostic guide.

With its logical and accessible structure, Assessment of the Lower Limb will also be invaluable to trainee general practitioners, medical students working in rheumatology, diabetology and orthopaedics, sports therapists and sports medicine trainees.

Contents

Part 1: Approaching the Patient
Assessment. The interview. The presenting problem. Clinical measurement.
Part 2: Systems Examination
Medical and social history. Vascular assessment. Neurological assessment. Assessment of the locomotor system. Assessment of the skin and its appendages. Footwear assessment.
Part 3: Laboratory and Hospital Investigations
Radiographic assessment. Methods of analysing gait. Laboratory tests.
Part 4: Specific Client Groups
The paediatric patient. The sports patient. The painful foot. Assessment of the 'at risk' foot. Pre- and post-operative assessment.
Index.