Muscles [antikvár]

FOREWORD For over twenty-five years we have been fortunate in having Henry 0. Kendall in charge of the Physiotherapy Department of the Children's Hospital School. During that time not only has a great volume of clinical work been splendidly carried on, but also due to the team work of Henry Kendall and his wife, Florence Peterson Kendall, a valuable series of original scientific papers and treatises has appeared in which we were proud to share by observation, criticism and the writing of brief forewords. So it was that when they proposed to concentrate their wide experience, their technical skill and their critical judgment in one big volume to give a thorough exposition of the methods and results of neuromuscular physical examination we were delighted. Now that it is completed we feel they have succeeded admirably in their difficult task and that the book with its text, charts and illustrations has made the difficult techniques clear and shown the way to correlate and evaluate the information obtained. Although a textbook containing necessarily estabhshed facts and methods, it presents them more clearly and graphically than ever heretofore and in addition it contains much that is entirely new and extremely valuable, especially the diagnostic nerve charts for the peripheral nerves. We take pleasure and pride in commending to the medical world this book, entitled Muscles, Testing and Function, by Henry 0. and Florence P. Kendall. George E. Bennett, Emeritus Adjunct Professor of Orthopedic Surgery Robert W. Johnson, Adjunct Professor of Orthopedic Surgery Johns Hopkins Medical School