Manual of Assessment in Community Physiotherapy for BPT and MPT Students | Ready-to-Use Subjective and Objective Assessment Proformas for Women's Health, Geriatrics, Industrial Therapy and Obesity: 1

Manual of Assessment in Community Physiotherapy is a comprehensive, protocol-based assessment manual for community physiotherapy practice, built around stepwise, ready-to-use assessment formats rather than continuous prose. Across 5 chapters it covers the five areas a community physiotherapist actually works in, namely women's health (antenatal and postnatal), geriatrics, industrial and occupational therapy, urinary incontinence, and obesity and fitness. Each chapter blends up-to-date scientific evidence with detailed subjective and objective proformas, special tests, outcome measures and ICF-based thinking, making it directly applicable in busy clinical and community settings. The manual is laid out as a working proforma rather than a textbook: checkbox field lists with nested sub-levels, bold field labels and fill-in blanks that are completed at the bedside or in the field. The women's health chapter alone carries two complete proformas, one antenatal and one postnatal, running from demographics, chief complaints and obstetric, menstrual and socioeconomic history through observation and inspection, abdominal examination with all four Leopold's maneuvers, breast examination, musculoskeletal testing, the five sacroiliac provocation tests, pelvic floor examination graded on the Modified Oxford scale 0 to 5 and the PERFECT scheme, and a closing Precautions and Red Flags refer-immediately list. Named outcome measures are specified throughout, including VAS and NPRS, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, SF-12, the Pregnancy Mobility Index, the Oswestry Disability Index, the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory, the Fatigue Severity Scale and the Pelvic Girdle Pain Questionnaire. Nine annexures reproduce the standardized assessment tools in full, with their score sheets, so a complete evaluation can be documented from this one book: the Short Physical Performance Battery protocol and score sheet, the Activities-Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale, the Functional Reach Test, the Timed Up and Go, the Tinetti Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment, the Berg Balance Scale, the Physical Performance Test, the Dynamic Gait Index and the 6-Minute Walk Test. The manual is a collaborative effort by the faculty of the Department of Community Physiotherapy at MGM School of Physiotherapy, and it deliberately favours practical, field-oriented assessment methods that reflect real-world challenges and decision-making in community physiotherapy practice. Who This Book Is For: BPT / Physiotherapy Students: a ready-to-use assessment format to carry into community and OPD postings, covering exactly what to ask, what to observe and what to measure in each of the five community areas. Physiotherapy Postgraduates (MPT): structured, evidence-linked proformas and ICF-based thinking for specialisation in community physiotherapy, with the standardized outcome measures a dissertation or clinical audit needs. Physiotherapy Interns: a single reference for documenting a complete subjective and objective assessment during rotational postings, including the red flags that require immediate referral. Practicing Physiotherapists: a field-oriented manual for camps, home visits, antenatal clinics, geriatric care and industrial settings, where assessment has to be fast, structured and defensible. Why This Book Helps: Turns assessment into a repeatable protocol: stepwise subjective and objective proformas replace ad hoc questioning, so nothing is missed and findings can be compared across visits and across therapists. Puts the standardized tools in your hands: nine annexed scales are reproduced with their score sheets, removing the need to hunt for a validated instrument mid-assessment. Covers the five community areas in one place: women's health, geriatrics, industrial and occupational therapy, urinary incontinence, and obesity and fitness are otherwise spread across separate specialty textbooks. Builds safe practice from the start: explicit precautions, consent and training caveats on internal pelvic floor examination, and a refer-immediately red flag list for postnatal cases. Grounds decisions in evidence and the ICF: each chapter links current scientific evidence to the functional, activity and participation framing that community practice is judged on. Key Features: 5 assessment chapters covering women's health (antenatal and postnatal), geriatrics, industrial therapy, urinary incontinence, and obesity and fitness. 9 annexures reproducing standardized tools with score sheets, including the Berg Balance Scale, Tinetti Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment, Short Physical Performance Battery, Dynamic Gait Index, Timed Up and Go and the 6-Minute Walk Test. Two complete ready-to-use proformas in the women's health chapter alone, one antenatal and one postnatal, in checkbox and fill-in-the-blank format. Named clinical methods and grading systems set out step by step, including all four Leopold's maneuvers, Naegele's rule with a worked example, the five sacroiliac provocation tests with the three-of-five rule, the Modified Oxford grading 0 to 5 and the PERFECT scheme. ICF-based thinking and a Precautions and Red Flags refer-immediately list built into the assessment flow.

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