Localize the Lesion, Read the Study, Pass Part I — On the First Attempt

Built for the physiatrist finishing residency and facing the ABPMR Part I Examination, this review mirrors the board's own 2024 content outline exactly, weighting musculoskeletal, neurological, medical rehabilitation, electrodiagnostic, and foundational content the way the official blueprint weights them. It moves from the functional framing that distinguishes physiatric reasoning through the disorder-specific chapters that carry most of the exam's actual weight, and into the electrodiagnostic interpretation skills passive reading alone cannot teach. Every chapter closes with board-style vignettes and full rationales written to its own locked answer key.

A 325-question Comprehensive Exam, sized to the exam's real length rather than a scaled-down sampler, gives a genuine full-length rehearsal before test day.

Inside, You Will Learn How To

• Localize a nerve root, plexus, or peripheral nerve lesion using dermatomal, myotomal, and electrodiagnostic patterns worked through together, not memorized apart.
• Read a nerve conduction study and needle EMG side by side, including the timing that separates axonal loss from demyelination.
• Manage the spine, shoulder, hip, and knee conditions carrying the heaviest single share of the real blueprint.
• Separate stroke syndromes, TBI severity, and spinal cord injury classification using vascular territory, Rancho staging, and the ASIA Impairment Scale.
• Step through the spasticity treatment ladder, from stretching and oral agents to chemodenervation and intrathecal baclofen.
• Walk into test day already knowing the real numbers behind retake rates, six-hour pacing, and what the media-exhibit questions actually test.
• Rehearse the exam itself with a 325-question Comprehensive Exam weighted to the ABPMR's own domain percentages, not a narrowed substitute.

Prepare for Part I the way the board actually built it: one blueprint-matched review, one full exam-day rehearsal.