Screening for Gastrointestinal Disease
Chapter 8 Screening for Gastrointestinal Disease A great deal of new understanding of the enteric system and its relationship to other systems has been discovered over the last decade. For…
Screening for Urogenital Disease
Chapter 10 Screening for Urogenital Disease A 40-year-old athletic man comes to your clinic for an evaluation of back pain that he attributes to a very hard fall on his…
Physical Assessment as a Screening Tool
Chapter 4 Physical Assessment as a Screening Tool In the medical model, clients are often assessed from head to toe. The doctor, physician assistant, nurse, or nurse practitioner starts with…
Introduction to Screening for Referral in Physical Therapy
Chapter 1 Introduction to Screening for Referral in Physical Therapy It is the therapist’s responsibility to make sure that each patient/client is an appropriate candidate for physical therapy. In order…
Screening the Lower Quadrant: Buttock, Hip, Groin, Thigh, and Leg
Chapter 16 Screening the Lower Quadrant Buttock, Hip, Groin, Thigh, and Leg The causes of lower quadrant pain or dysfunction vary widely; presentation of symptoms is equally wide ranging. Vascular…
Screening for Pulmonary Disease
Chapter 7 Screening for Pulmonary Disease For the client with neck, shoulder, or back pain at presentation, it may be necessary to consider the possibility of a pulmonary cause requiring…
Screening the Chest, Breasts, and Ribs
Chapter 17 Screening the Chest, Breasts, and Ribs Clients do not present in a physical therapy clinic with chest or breast pain as the primary symptom very often. The therapist…
Screening for Hepatic and Biliary Disease
Chapter 9 Screening for Hepatic and Biliary Disease As with many of the organ systems in the human body, the hepatic and biliary organs (liver, gallbladder, and common bile duct)…
Screening the Sacrum, Sacroiliac, and Pelvis
Chapter 15 Screening the Sacrum, Sacroiliac, and Pelvis Following the model for decision making in the screening process outlined in Chapter 1 (see Box 1-7), we now turn our attention…
Screening the Shoulder and Upper Extremity
Chapter 18 Screening the Shoulder and Upper Extremity The therapist is well aware that many primary neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions in the neck, cervical spine, axilla, thorax, thoracic spine, and…
