Tan's Practical Manual of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Covering the essential aspects of the practice of adult PM&R, Tan's Practical Manual of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 3rd Edition, provides up-to-date, authoritative information in a quick-reference, outline format. Physiatrist, physical therapist, researcher, and educator Dr. Jackson C. Tan, along with new co-author Dr. Michelle Stern, focuses on in- and out-patient conditions you’re most likely to see in practice, offering practical guidance on clinical evaluation, diagnostic testing, differential diagnoses, and management tools. This must-have manual is an essential tool for physiatrists, PM&R residents and subspecialists, orthopedic surgeons, pain medicine specialists, neurologists, physical and occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, and other health professionals-anyone who needs to master the management of these common conditions for optimal patient care.

• Reflects the most recent clinical practice guidelines and evidence-based medicine for the management of acute and chronic pain, spasticity, neurogenic bowel and lower urinary tract dysfunctions, venous thromboembolism, cardiovascular and chronic lower respiratory problems, and other basic PM&R problems
• Uses a unique and comprehensive outline format with numerous acronym mnemonics to facilitate understanding of each topic and their practical application
• Features new, updated, and expanded tables, boxes, algorithms, and figures
• Includes fully expanded and updated chapters on joint and soft tissue injections and viscosupplementations; trigger point injections; therapeutic modalities and exercises; orthotics, prosthetics, gait aids, and robotics; wheelchairs; pharmacologic agents; neurogenic communication disorders; dysphagia; sexuality dysfunctions; immobility and hospital-associated deconditioning; pressure injuries, chronic wounds, and burns; work-related musculoskeletal conditions, and much more
• Covers the latest diagnostic tests and functional assessment instruments, including the Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE) scale
• 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

List of contents

Part 1: PM&R Clinical Evaluation
1. Clinical Evaluation and Documentation

Part 2: PM&R Diagnostic Tests
2. Laboratory Tests
3. Noninvasive Imaging Studies
4. Invasive Imaging Studies
5. Electrodiagnostic Tests
6. Musculoskeletal and Work-Related Tests
7. Pulmonary Function Tests
8. Exercise Tolerance Testing
9. Functional Assessment Instruments
10. Psychologic Tests

Part 3: PM&R Differential Diagnoses
11. Differential Diagnoses of Pain
12. Differential Diagnoses of Nonpain Problems

Part 4: PM&R Management Tools - new chapter on regenerative therapy will be added.
13. Physical Modalities
14. Therapeutic Exercises
15. Orthoses
16. Prostheses
17. Adaptations for Activities of Daily Living
18. Gait Aids and Gait Patterns
19. Manual and Powered Mobililty Systems
20. Pharmacologic Agents
21. Joint and Soft Tissue Injections
22. Nerve Blocks
23. Trigger Point Injections
24. Regenerative Therapy

Part 5: PM&R Basic Problems
25. Deconditioning
26. Pressure Ulcers and Wounds
27. Venous Thromboembolism
28. Spasticity
29. Neurogenic Communication Disorders
30. Dysphagia
31. Voiding Dysfunctions
32. Bowel Dysfunctions
33. Problems in Human Sexuality
34. Acute and Chronic Pain
35. Work-Related Musculoskeletal Problems
36. Chronic Pulmonary Problems
37. Cardiac Problems
38. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Part 6: PM&R Appendices ONLINE ONLY
A.
A-1 Average range of motion for the cervical spine and upper limbs
A-2 Average range of motion for the lumbar spine and lower limbs
A-3 Reference values for motor nerve conduction studies
A-4 Reference values for sensory nerve conduction studies
A-5 Reference values for F-wave studies
A-6 Summary of typical findings of needle electromyography in normal muscle and in neurogenic and myogenic lesions

B.
B-1 Sensory distribution of major peripheral nerves and dermatomes (anterior view).
B-2 Sensory distribution of major peripheral nerves and dermatomes (posterior view).
B-3 Diagram of motor innervation of the upper limb showing branches of the musculocutaneous and median nerves.
B-4 Diagram of motor innervation of the upper limb showing branches of the ulnar nerve.
B-5 Diagram of motor innervation of the upper limb showing branches of the axillary and radial nerves.
B-6 Diagram of motor innervation of the lower limb showing branches of the femoral, obturator, and common peroneal nerves.
B-7 Diagram of the brachial plexus.
B-8 Diagram of the lumbosacral plexus.
B-9 Superficial muscles of the trunk, anterior view.
B-10 Superficial muscles of the trunk, posterior view.
B-11 Muscles of the upper limbs.
B-12 Muscles of the lower limbs.

C. Normal x-rays of the head, spine, and limbs

D. Normal MRI of the brain (axial view)

E. Normal MRI of the brain (sagittal view)

F. Normal MRI of the cervical spine

G. Normal MRI of the lumbar spine

H. ASIA classification for spinal cord injury

I. Spinal cord syndromes

J. Stroke syndromes

About the author

Jackson Tan, MD, PhD, PT, trained at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York City, NY. He is the sole author of the first and second editions of Practical Manual of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He has authored and co-authored 19 other scientific publications related to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.Michelle Stern, MD, trained at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York City, NY. She is one of the 29 peer-reviewers of the 2nd edition of Practical Manual of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She has authored and co-authored 24 other scientific publications related to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Product details

• Authors: Stern Michelle, Tan Jackson C.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 02.01.2026
• EAN: 9780323812771
• ISBN: 978-0-323-81277-1
• Weight: 450 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Rehabilitation, MEDICAL / Orthopedics, MEDICAL / Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, physiotherapy, Orthopaedics & fractures