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Previous Volume 335:292-293 July 25, 1996 Number 4

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Edited by Randall L. Braddom. 1301 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1996. $165. ISBN 0-7216-5243-3.

According to the Bureau of the Census, 1 in 10 adult Americans lives with a major disability. Most people have episodes of musculoskeletal pain that limit their function at some time during their lives. Yet physicians in training receive very limited formal instruction in rehabilitation. They are likely to be poorly prepared to deal with patients with pain syndromes and disabilities.

Does this book help solve the problem? Its goals are to cover physical medicine and rehabilitation broadly and to be practical, clinically useful, and user-friendly. There are four sections, on evaluation, treatment techniques and special equipment, the management of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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