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Upper Extremity Injury Evaluation: An Interactive Approach (Individual)
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Author: Denise Wiksten, Brian Barry
List Price: $197.95
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ISBN: 1556424027
Publisher: Slack, Inc. (01 November, 1999)
Edition: CD-ROM
Sales Rank: 1,648,797
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
A Step into the 21st Century
This is the first CD-ROM I know of that teaches the user about some common orthopedic examinations of the arm and neck. As a teaching tool, it has some great advantages over a book: (1) the "reader" can see how each examination is performed in video clips and (2) anatomical structures related to the examination can be viewed and rotated in 3-D. The user can gain a feeling of how to do the examinations and what they are for much more easily than by following instructions and viewing photographs from an ordinary textbook. In general, the information is presented correctly, but an inconsistency or mistake pops up now and then in the audio explanation versus written explanation, in spelling, or in the examination procedure itself. These are fortunately few enough that the CD-ROM is still valuable to use. The user should simply double-check against another reference any detail that seems to be awry. This is an important attempt, the first that I know of, to bring to the consumer market a "high-tech" means of showing how to do physical examinations of orthopedic problems. That anatomical structures can be rotated and zoomed in upon is truly wonderful, but photographs of plastic models are a disappointment considering what computer graphics can bring to the user's screen these days. Each examination is presented in a sequence of five or more segments and, unfortunately, the segments can be accessed only sequentially rather than randomly. The final segment is invariably an unnecessary explanation of what constitutes a negative test for the examination. In summary, the authors have provided something valuable that we have needed for a long time. Some of the technical details of the production, however, should be improved. By using this CD, the user can immediately see what greater possibilities lie ahead with such a medium.
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