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edited by Joel A. DeLisa, Bruce M. Gans, and Nicolas E. Walsh, et al, 4th ed, 2022 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN 0-7817-4130-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.

JAMA. 2005;294:1969-1970.

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The field of physical medicine and rehabilitation covers an extremely diverse group of topics, and the fourth edition of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice represents this diversity quite admirably. Reviewing a two-volume textbook with 88 chapters and 1926 pages appeared a formidable task. In fact, the text proved to be quite readable and afforded me an opportunity to rediscover the breadth of the specialty and to reevaluate aspects of my current clinical practices.

Volume 1 addresses physical medicine, and volume 2 focuses on rehabilitation medicine. Some chapters cover very broad topics, and, at times, one might question the allotment of space. For example, the stroke rehabilitation chapter is only 22 pages long and does not have the same depth of discussion as other major rehabilitation topics receive. In comparison, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury rehabilitation are covered much more thoroughly in approximately twice the number of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas K. Watanabe, MD, Reviewer
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
tkwatanabe@fuse.net