Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities

I am the Head Athletic Trainer, as well as a professor for a college in Oklahoma. I have used this text from Hoppenfeld for many years and find it to be one of the most important and useful books on the market for assessing athletic injuries. Hoppenfeld completed this book in 1976, it is so complete and accurate that it is still an original edition. The only word of caution about this book is to break it in slowly. I have gone through two copies because of the extremely tight binding of the book. Take your time and work the pages in slowly and I guarantee you will be as pleased with this book as I am.

Easy to read, and easy to use for teaching. This book is currently 1998 in use as a textbook for the medical / physiotherapy and chiropractic students at Odense university, Denmark. This book can be used on many levels in the health care system. It contains the bare essentials in palpation and clinical examinaiton.