Managing Minor Musculoskeletal Injuries and Conditions (Advanced Healthcare Practice)

Emergency care professionals are increasingly expected to workautonomously when caring for patients with minor musculoskeletalinjuries and conditions. They have to be able to competently andsafely take a patient’s history, examine, diagnose andprovide management of these conditions. Managing MinorMusculoskeletal Injuries and Conditions pulls together allthese aspects of care into one practical, easy-to-read text.

Aimed principally at students undertaking minor injury andemergency care courses, this title is a comprehensive manual ofminor musculoskeletal injuries and conditions, highly illustratedthroughout and containing a variety of activities andexercises.

Key features:

• Includes material on study skills, distance and self-directedlearning to support both students on formal courses and thoseworking alone
• Extensive learning features, including a range of activities,hints and tips and multiple-choice questions
• Supported by a companion website with further self-assessment,downloadable X-ray PowerPoint slides, picture tutorials, practicehistory-taking documentation and legal scenarios
• Enables more effective management and care of patients withmusculoskeletal injuries