Differential Diagnosis and Management for the Chiropractor

Differential Diagnosis and Management for the Chiropractor is included in the 2015 edition of the essential collection of Doody's Core Titles. The Fifth Edition of this best-selling reference is a compendium of evidence-based approaches to the most common presenting complaints. Covering both musculoskeletal and visceral complaints, this text is intended to direct the chiropractor toward an appropriate plan of approach in both diagnostic evaluation and care. Highlighting these approaches are flowcharts (algorithms), relevant historical questioning, and summaries of common conditions related to the presenting complaint. What's New in the 5th Edition? - Additional disorders added to Selected Causes at the conclusion of chapters - Addition of Likelihood Ratio graphics - Addition of approximately 500 new references - New Appendix: Evidence Based Approach to the Literature - Expanded Appendix: Pharmacology for the Chiropractor includes newer drugs and further explains the classifications of medications mechanisms - Translation into Practice Summary (TIPS) for most of the orthopedic chapters - Updated Algorithms: Cervical spine, Lumbar spine, Shoulder, Knee
Thomas Souza, D.C. is currently Dean of Academic Affairs at Palmer College of Chiropractic West.He is also a Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians (DACBSP). In addition to the first four editions of Differential Diagnosis and Management for the Chiropractor: Protocols and Algorithms, he is author/editor of Sports Injuries of the Shoulder- Churchill Livingstone. Dr. Souza has been a past member of the editorial board for Topics in Clinical Chiropractic and Journal of the Neuromusculoskeletal System and past Columnist for Dynamic Chiropractic: The Chiropractic Sports Physician. He is a frequent lecturer for post-graduate seminars and acts as a consultant/expert witness.