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Practical Evaluation and Management of the Shoulder
by Frederick A. Matsen III, Steven B. Lippitt, John A. Sidles, and Douglas T. Harryman II, 256 pp, with illus, $75, ISBN 0-7216-4819-3, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1994.
John M. Henderson, DO, FAAFP, Reviewer
Hughston Sports Medicine Center Columbus, Ga
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(2):170-171.
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This book is authored by the "shoulder team" of the University of Washington School of Medicine who wanted to present their efforts to optimize the function of compromised shoulders in an efficient, cost-effective way. They wrote this text for orthopedists and other physicians who "seek to understand mechanical problems of the shoulder." I did not think that procedure-oriented authors could produce a text useful to the cognitive-based generalist, but this text is well done in that they rely on the "cheap medicine" of history, examination, and plain roentgenograms.
There are six chapters in this compact, easy-to-read book, chockfull of understandable drawings and diagrams. (Finally, someone produced a text without hazy x-ray illustrations!)
Chapter 1 sets the stage, describing the epidemiologic and evaluation strategies of the common problems and presenting a systematic approach to history taking. Complaints are divided into problems of motion, stability, smoothness, and strength. An entity called the
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