Focusing on musculoskeletal assessment and clinical practice. It includes notices regarding constantly changing best practices, emphasizing the need for practitioners to rely on their own knowledge and the latest information, particularly concerning medication. The bulk of the content consists of detailed anatomical diagrams and tables illustrating the muscles, ligaments, and osteology of various regions, including the head, neck, spine, hip, knee, ankle, and upper extremities. Crucially, the text presents extensive evidence-based data in the form of tables that report the reliability and diagnostic utility of numerous clinical tests, utilizing statistics such as sensitivity, specificity, Likelihood Ratios (LRs), and Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICCs) to inform clinical decision-making. Biographical information for the authors, Joshua Cleland and Shane Koppenhaver, and the famed medical illustrator Frank H. Netter, is also included.
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