Measurement of Joint Motion: A Practical Guide to Goniometry, Range of Motion Assessment, Joint Alignment, Muscle Length Testing, and Clinical Measurement for Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

A Practical Guide to Goniometry, Range of Motion Assessment, Joint Alignment, Muscle Length Testing, and Clinical Measurement for Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

A single angle on a chart looks like a fact. It is closer to a statement: this examiner, with this instrument, in this position, found this angle, with this much error. Measurement of Joint Motion teaches clinicians to write that statement honestly and to act on it wisely.

Written for postgraduate students, practicing clinicians, and researchers in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and rehabilitation medicine, this book treats reliability as a property of procedure as much as of instrument. It explains why two careful examiners can differ by 12 degrees at the knee, how to tell a real change from measurement error, and how to build a protocol that keeps readings meaningful from one visit to the next.

Inside the book

• The science of measurement: reliability, agreement, standard error, and minimal detectable change, with worked examples
• Every major method: universal goniometer, inclinometer, smartphone, photograph, screenshot, electrogoniometer, inertial sensor, depth camera, radiograph, motion capture, and MRI
• Joint-by-joint protocols for the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle and foot, spine, and jaw
• Alignment, posture, leg length, and foot posture
• Muscle length testing, with the pelvis and second joint controlled
• Normal variation and how to read a reference table critically
• Range of motion in disease, after surgery, and in neurological conditions
• Training, competence, and quality auditing for a department
• Standards, ethics, and remote and digital practice, including how to anchor a home measurement to an in-person one

Each chapter opens with learning objectives and closes with tables, checklists, and recording templates ready for clinical use. Critical appraisal runs throughout, showing readers how to catch the reporting errors that overstate a method’s accuracy.

This is a book for clinicians who want their numbers to mean something, and for the next reader who has to trust them.

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