Lecture 12 Musculoskeletal Clinical Assessment

Question 1

What questions would you ask to assess History of Typical Day

Answer 1

• Do you have any pain or stiffness in your muscles joints or back?
• Can you dress yourself completely without any difficulty?
• Can you walk up and down stairs without any difficulty?

Question 2

Orthopaedic symptoms: something feels wrong

Answer 2

Pain, dysesthesia, weakness

Question 3

Orthopaedic symptoms: something moves wrong

Answer 3

Stiffness, Reduced RoM (locking), Limo, Instability/Collapsing, Crepitus

Question 4

Orthopaedic symptoms: something looks wrong

Answer 4

Swelling, Deformity, Wasting, Shortening, Discolouration (e.g. redness, pallor, bruising), Wounds

Question 5

What are red flags that would suggest a serious pathology

Answer 5

o	Severe and worsening sleep
o	Non-mechanical pain
o	General malaise, febrile, rigors
o	Unexplained weight loss, anorexia, night sweats
o	Past history of malignant disease