What Reading Materials are Helpful to Learn More About PM&R

• The Medical Student's Guide to PM&R

Textbooks

• Braddom RL. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Sixth Edition • 2020
• Brukner, Peter and Khan, Karim. Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill Book Company Australia; 2011. The bible of sports medicine. It covers all aspects of diagnosis and management of sports related injuries.
• Campagnolo DI, Kirshblum S, Nash MS. Spinal Cord Medicine. 2nd ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2010
• Cuccurullo SJ. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Review. 4th ed. Demos Medical Publishing; 2019.
• DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice 6th Edition. Walter R. Frontera, Joel A. DeLisa MD MS. 2019.
• Frontera WR, Silver JK, Rizzo TD. Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 3rd ed. W.B. Saunders; 2015.
• Malanga & Mautner. Musculoskeletal Physical Examination: An Evidence-Based Approach, 2nd Edition. 2016. Gerard A. Malanga & Kenneth Mautner
• Preston & Shapiro. Electromyography and neuromuscular disorders. Clinical-Electrophysiologic Correlations. 3rd Ed. Saunders. 2012

Guidebooks

• Hoppenfeld S, Thomas H, Hutton R. Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities. 1st ed. Prentice Hall, 1976
• Miller A, Heckert K, Davis B. The 3-Minute Musculoskeletal & Peripheral Nerve Exam. 1st ed. Demos Medical Publishing; 2008.
• O'Young BJ, Young MA, Stiens SA. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Secrets. 3rd ed. Mosby; 2007.
• Rathmell J. Atlas of Image-Guided Intervention in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 2nd Ed. Lipincott, Williams & Wilkins; 2011
• Shatzer M. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pocketpedia. 2nd ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012.
• Weiss L, Silver J, Weiss J. Easy EMG. 1st ed. Butterworth-Heinemann; 2004.
• Wyss J & Patel A. Therapeutic Programs for musculoskeletal disorders. 1st Ed, Demos Medical Publishing; 2013

Journals

• American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: 

  • Official Journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists and the Asociación Médica Latinoamericana de Rehabilitación (AMLAR).

  • AJPM&R focuses on the practice, research and educational aspects of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

• PM&R: 
  • PM&R is the official scientific journal of AAPM&R.
  • All Academy members receive free access to all journal content online.

Articles/Webpages

• Essential Articles by AAP

  • This is a peer-reviewed compilation of “must-read” articles covering the scope of physiatry. This is the 3rd edition published in 2015. There is a list of various topics across all subspecialties of PM&R and a great refresher prior to rotations.

• Emgwhiz.com - Interactive case-based training module to learn electrodiagnostics! Stroke education/guidelines

• Stinear CM, Lang CE, Zeiler S, Byblow WD. Advances and challenges in stroke rehabilitation. Lancet Neurol. 2020 Apr;19(4):348-360. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(19)30415-6. Epub 2020 Jan 28. PMID: 32004440.

  • This article reviews multi-center trials within stroke rehabilitation

• Get With The Guidelines®– Stroke has numerous published studies, resources, and tools to learn about stroke:

• Stroke Best Practices (Canadian) has a compilation of evidence-based stroke care guidelines

• TBI Guidelines

  • This Canadian website has guidelines for concussion rehabilitation, rehab for patients with moderate-severe TBI

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