Neurologic Examination: An Illustrated Guide to the Neurological Examination - Softcover

Schwartzman, Robert J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1734596732 ISBN 13: 9781734596731

Publisher: Rjs Medical Press LLC, 2020

Synopsis

Neurologic Examination is designed to help medical personnel make a diagnosis with the patient's history and physical examination. This book is designed to lead the physician to the correct localization of a lesion utilizing simple bedside tests. The only tools employed are a reflex hammer and a pin. The illustrations and technique descriptions guide the practitioner through subtle but important details and distinctions, which include the observation of gait, the use of drifts, the arm roll, and parietal copy.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Schwartzman has gained national recognition for his decades of medical practice, research, and teaching. He served as the neurology residency training director for programs at three universities and the chairman of neurology at three institutions. He received his undergraduate education at Harvard and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 

His medical training was done at Duke University under the tutelage of Dr. Eugene A. Stead. He completed his neurology training at the University of Pennsylvania and his neuromuscular fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He is board-certified in internal medicine and neurology.

He served as Chief of Neurology at the University of Texas Science Center at San Antonio, Chairman of the Department of Neurology for Thomas Jefferson University, and then at Drexel University College of Medicine.He is currently a Professor Emeritus at Drexel University. 

He received teaching awards from all of the universities at which he served as well as national teaching awards in both neurology and anesthesiology. 

In his 41 years of practicing medicine and teaching, Dr.Schwartzman has trained over 350 residents during his career, nearly sixty have become professors of neurology, and ten have become chairmen of neurology departments.

With colleagues at Jefferson, he founded the first Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) clinic in the country [USA]. He established a pain research laboratory that demonstrated a major role of cytokines in CRPS. These efforts delineated many clinical features of the disease and have led to an effective treatment for many with ketamine. The alleviation of pain has been a significant component of his scholarly and clinical interests.

From the Inside Flap

Chapter Contents
The History
Mental Status
Cranial Nerves
The Motor System
Posture, Stance, and Spinal Movement
Involuntary Movements
Basic Principles for the Sensory Examination
Common Patterns of Abnormal Sensation
The Motor Sensory Links
Coordination
Disorders of Speech
Apraxias
Agnosia
The Unconscious Patient
The Autonomic Nervous System

Edition details

• Publisher: Rjs Medical Press LLC
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1734596732
• ISBN 13: 9781734596731
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288