Back Flashcards
Back pain differentials
Back pain red flags
TUNAFISH
Ankylosing spondylitis
- group and associated clinical features
- presentation (+extra articular)
- investigations
- examination
- management
- complications
Spinal stenosis
- causes
- presentation
- management
Neurogenic claudication
- pathophysiology
- vascular vs neurogenic
- management
Vertebral osteomyelitis/discitis
- pathophysiology
- risk factors
- common organisms
Psoas abscess
- pathophysiology
- organisms
- risk factors
- presentation
- investigations
- management
Spondylolisthesis
- pathophysiology
- spondylosis vs spondylolisthesis
- presentation
- investigations
- management
Degenerative disc disease
- risk factors
- pathophysiology
- presentation
- special test
- differentials
- investigations
- management
Dermatomes and myotomes
Mechanical back pain
- acute/subacute/chronic
- risk factors
- pathophysiology
- presentation
- investigations
- differentials
- management
- referrals
Cervical fracture
- presentation
- differentials
- eponymous fractures
- X-ray approach
- investigations
- management
- UMN + LMN (neuro sem 4)
