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Lecture 24- Upper Limb Soft Tissue Disorders Flashcards

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Skeletal muscle function

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  • enable us to move

- convert body’s chemical energy into a physical contraction

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Tendon function

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  • binds muscle to bone
  • transmit force between muscle and bone
  • enable muscle belly to be at a convenient distance from joint
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Ligaments function

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  • bind bone to bone
  • stabilise joint
  • hold skeleton together
  • transmit load from bone to bone
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Enthesis function

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  • binds tendon/ligament to bone
  • stable anchorage to the skeleton
  • protects bone attachment sites to bone by dissipating stress
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Bursa function

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  • cushions locates at points of friction
  • DEEP: allow muscles to glide over each other and over prominences of bone
  • SUPERFICIAL: cushions between skin and bone
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Acute injury definition

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  • usually occurs from a known incident
  • definite moment of onset
  • signs and symptoms develop rapidly
  • relatively predictable pattern of events
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Bruise/contusion

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  • acute soft tissue injury of blood vessels

- direct force applied to the body resulting in compression and bleeding into soft tissue

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Muscle/tendon injury

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  • strain: acute soft tissue injury
  • muscles over stretching or contracting too quickly, resulting in a partial or compelte tear of the muscle and/or tendon fibres
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Are muscles or tendon most commonly damaged in acute injuries?

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MUSCLES

  • tendons are much stronger
  • damage is usually to muscle belly or musculotendinous junction
  • tendons weaken with age, medication and comorbidities
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Grading of soft tissue injury

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  • Grade 1: minimal tear
  • Grade 2: partial tear
  • Grade 3: complete tear
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Sprain

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  • ligament acute soft tissue injury

- joint forced beyong normal ROM -> results in overstretching and tearing of ligament that supports the joint

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Bursa injury

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  • aseptic: direct blow or fall -> hemarthrosis (eg Gout)

- Septic: dangerous. Insect bite or cut/abrasion. Hematogenous spread

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Healing response of soft tissue

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  • bleeding: hematoma
  • inflammatory: remove debris, recruit repair cells
  • Proliferation: fibroblast collagen synthesis
  • REmodelling: organisation of scar tissue
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RICE THERAPY

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  • first 2 days
  • Rest
  • ice 20 min 4-8 times a day
  • compression to reduce swelling
  • elevation above heart -> reduce swelling
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Rehabilitation phase

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  • restore ROM, strength, flexibility
  • graded exercise program
  • surgery for grade III
  • depends on extent and type of injury
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Time needed for full recovery

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  • mild sprain/strain: 3-6 weeks
  • moderate: 2-3 months
  • severe: 8-12 months
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Chronic disorders definition

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  • insidious onset
  • develops and worsens over time
  • persists for >3 months
  • may occur as a result of repetitive load or stress (microtrauma)
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Healthy tendons

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  • brilliant white color
  • high mechanical strength
  • good flexibility
  • dry mass 30%, water 70%
  • mostly collagen type I
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Changes in tendinosis

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  • disorganised collagen
  • cellularity of rounded tenocytes
  • switch to majority of type III collagen
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Supraspinatus injury

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  • abducts arm at the shoulder joint during the first 10-15 percent
  • pulls humerus medially against glenoid fossa
  • empty can sign
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Infraspinatus/ teres minor injury

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  • external rotator and adductor of shoulder

- ask to asct like a penguin

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Subscapularis

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  • internal rotation
  • pulls humerus forward and downward
  • ” scratch your back”
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Bursae in shoulder joint

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  • biceps tenosynovium
  • subcoracoid bursa
  • subacromial bursa
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Rotator cuff pathology

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  • 85% of shoulder problems
  • by age 60, over 50% have a tear
  • most tears are degenerative
  • usually starts in supraspinatus and spreads
  • tears do not heal on their own -> grow larger
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Common MOI for rotator cuff

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  • fall on outstretched arm
  • fall on outer shouler
  • heavy pushing/pulling
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Symptoms of rotator cuff

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  • many patients dont have pain
  • pain localized along lateral arm
  • pain with numerous activities
  • lying on affected side, overhead movements
  • shoulder weakness, loss of motion
  • catching sensation when shoulder is moved
  • night pain
  • pain on active > passive movement
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Examination for rotator cuff tear

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  • normal ROM
  • pain on stressing affected endon
  • weakness of affected tendon if significant tear
  • bursitis/impingement
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Radiology for rotator cuff tears

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  • abnormal rotator cuff signal after trauma may represent strain rather than tear
  • X ray -> high riding humeral head is indicative of full thickness supraspintus tear
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Treatment of rotator cuff tears

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  • ICE
  • NSAIDS
  • restrict aggravating motion
  • weight pendulum
  • steroid injection if persistent symptoms
  • graded physiotherapy
  • surgery for young patients or patients with full tear or dominant arm
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Impingement syndrome

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  • compression of rotator cuff tendons and subacromial bursa between greater tuberosity and acromion
  • repetitive overhead motions
  • main cause of rotator cuff tendonitis
  • can lead to bursitis, partial or full rotator cuff tears
  • symptoms similar to tendinitis, tears
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Exam for impingement

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  • painful arc
  • crepitus above 60 degrees
  • normal glenohumeral ROM
  • normal strength
  • Hawkins kennedy test
  • Neer’s test
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Hawkins kennedy test:

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  • at 90 degrees of elbow flexion, do internal rotation by pushing down on patients forearm
  • compress subacromial space
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Neer’s test

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  • at full elbow extension, internally rotate and flex the arm while stabilizing the scapula
  • jams the humeral head into the acromion
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Radiology for impingement

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  • clinical diagnosis, X ray not usually needed
  • Xray if chronic symptoms, Acromial spurs or AC joint osteophytes
  • confirm on ultrasound
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Treatment of impingement

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  • REST
  • ICE
  • NSAID
  • subacromial injection
  • physiotherapy
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Biceps tendonitis

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  • inflammation of long head of buceps
  • usually due to repetitive lifting or reaching
  • inflammation, microtering, degenerative changes
  • up to 10% of patients have spontaneous rupture
  • anterior shoulder pain
  • worse with lifting or overhead reaching
  • often patients point to bicipital groove
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Examination for biceps tendonitis

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  • bicipital groove tenderness
  • look for subacromial impingement
  • tendon rupture
  • test biceps strength
  • Yergason test
    Speeds test
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Yergason test

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  • elbows flexed with forearms in front
  • patient actively resists external rotation
  • tendon may pop out of bicipital groove when downward pressure applied to forearm
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Treatment of biceps tendonitis

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  • reduce inflammation
  • strengthen biceps muscle and tendon
  • prevent rupture
  • Ice, NSAIDS
  • avoid aggravating motion
  • weight pendulum
  • elbow flexion toning exercise
  • steroid injection
  • surgical referral if refractory
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Ruptured biceps tendon

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  • popeye sign
  • rarely get significant weakness
  • short head of biceps and brachioradialis provide 80/85% of elbow flexor strength
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Adhesive capsulitis

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  • also called “frozen shoulder”
  • usually self limiting
  • may have preceding trauma
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Risk factors for adhesive capsulitis

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  • diabetes
  • disuse
  • hypo and hyperthyroidism
  • high cholesterol
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Adhesive capsulitis clinical features

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  • 3 classic stages: pain (freezing stage), stiffness (frozen stage), resolution (thawing stage)
  • frozen stage characterized by pain and restriction of all movements of the shoulder
  • range of motion is smooth and pain free, then stops suddenly
  • normal strength is the pain free range
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Radiology for adhesive caspulitis

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  • clinical diagnosis
  • Xray to exclude other factors
  • MRI enhancement of joint capsule and synovial membrane
  • 4 mm thickening is 70% sensitive and 95% specific
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Treatment of adhesive capsulitis

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  • watchful waiting
  • NSAIDS
  • steroid injection
  • hydrodilatation
  • manipulation under anesthesia
  • gentle exercise when pain free
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Lateral epicondylitis: “ tennis elbow”

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> 10% of cases are due to tennis

  • degeneration of origin of ECRB
  • repetitive extension of wrist, throwing
  • microtrauma to insertion of extensor muscle of lateral epicondyle
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Clinical features of lateral epicondylitis

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  • aching pain in region of lateral epicondyle after activity
  • localized tenderness over lateral epicondyle
  • pain with hand shakes, lifting briefcase
  • pain with resistive wrist extension, pronation and third finger extension
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Lateral epicondylitis treatment

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  • RICE
  • NSAIDS
  • analgesics
  • activity modification
  • counterforce strap
  • range of motion exercise
  • deep friction massage
  • steroid injection
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Medial epicondylitis: Golfer’s elbow

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  • inflammation of the common flexor tendons at medial epicondyle
  • repetitive flexion of the wrist, pitching, golf swing, swimming backstroke
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Clinical diagnosis of medial epicondylitis

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  • tenderness over medial epicondylke
  • pain on resisted wrist volar flexion
  • X ray negative
  • ultrasound
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Management of medial epicondylitis

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  • RICE, NSAIDS, analgesics
  • activity modification
  • counterforce strap
  • ROM exercise
  • deep friction massage
  • steroid injection
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DE quervain’s tenosynovytis

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  • inflammation of sheath surround abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis
  • painful thumb abduction
  • new mothers lifitng babies
  • pain and swelling over radial styloid
  • Finkelstein’s maneuver
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De Quervains treatment

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  • RICE
  • NSAIDS
  • activity modification
  • thum spica splint
  • cortisone injection
  • operative release rarely required
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Trigger finger

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  • catching sensation or locking phenomena
  • pain in affected finger
  • catching and locking episode
  • palpable nodule over MCP joint
  • thickening along affected flexor tendon
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Trigger finger treatment

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  • change of activity
  • splint
  • use of NSAID
  • CS injection
  • surgery for severe cases

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