Braddom's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Hardcover

Cifu MD, David X.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0443264384 ISBN 13: 9780443264382

Publisher: Elsevier, 2025

Synopsis

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation**

For more than 25 years, Braddom's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has been the most trusted resource for PM&R physicians and residents on physiatry knowledge and techniques. Under the longstanding editorial leadership of Dr. David X. Cifu, the fully revised 7th Edition continues the tradition of excellence with in-depth coverage of essential core principles along with the latest cutting-edge research, innovative technologies, and interventional procedures that enhance patient care and facilitate optimal return to function. A succinct, easy-to-navigate format emphasizes need-to-know material, while numerous high-quality illustrations, step-by-step videos, and quick-reference study features make this edition a complete, evidence-based resource for every member of the PM&R team.

• Offers comprehensive coverage of stroke, interventional pain management, gait and prosthetics, USG, fluoroscopy, electrodiagnosis, assistive technology, impairment rating and disability determination, integrative medicine, and much more
• Features highly illustrated, templated chapters that are easy to navigate without sacrificing coverage of key topics
• Contains new coverage of functional medicine as a whole health approach, including atypical systemic disorders covering long COVID, dementia, and autoimmune disorders
• Includes study sheets, high-yield information boxes, and case studies for problem-based learning, as well as new summary pearls in every chapter
• Provides online access to more than 100 videos on physical assessment and ultrasound techniques, and hundreds of multiple-choice self-assessment questions
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

About this title

About the Author

David Xavier Cifu is an American physiatrist, researcher, and medical educator. He is the Associate Dean for Innovation and System Integration in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the chairman and Herman J. Flax M.D. Professor of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Virginia Commonwealth University, staff physiatrist at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center, founding director of the VCU-Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering and senior TBI specialist in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443264384
• ISBN 13: 9780443264382
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1445