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What are the consequences of childrens’ ligaments being stronger than the growth plates?

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Easy to produce epihyseal separation

Difficult to dislocate or sprain

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What are the consequences of young bones being more porous?

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Tolerates for deformation
Fails in compression as well as tension
(Buckle + green stick fractures)

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What are presenting parental concerns in children development?

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In or Out-toeing
Bow legs
Kock knees
Flat/curved feet
Curly toes
Tiptoe walking
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What is the david jones system?

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Symetrical
Symtomatic
Systemic illness
Skeletal dysplasia
Stiffness
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What is a slipped upper/capital femoral epiphysis?

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Posterior medial displacement of proximal femoral epiphysis in relation to neck
Normally in the widened zone of hypertophy in physis

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Who is likely to get a slipped upper/capital femoral epiphysis?

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Range 9-16 yrs
Boys more than girls
Girls often earlier peack age

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What can cause a slipped upper/capital femoral epiphysis?

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Idiopathic (adolescence, increased weight, delayed bone age)
Secodnary to underlying disorder
Ie hypothyroidism
Hypogonadism
Renal osteodystophy
Growth hormone therapy
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What is the presenting history of a slipped upper/capital femoral epiphysis?

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Pain in groin/knee/thigh
Lip
Trauma
ER deformity

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What is seen in the physical exam of a slipped upper/capital femoral epiphysis?

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Look at body habitus (general physique)
Externally rotated extermity
Obligatory external rotation in flexion
ROM limited by pain

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What is the radiological investigation into a slipped upper/capital femoral epiphysis?

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X-ray in frog lateral position

If positive urgent review

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What infections can cause limping in children?

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Septic arthtis
Osteomyelitis
Transient synovitis
Muscle abscess

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What is the history of an infection causing limp?

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Pain 
(Limp)
General maliase
Increased temp
Trauma?
Psuedoparalysis
Recent URTI
Listen to parent - normally right
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What is the examination process if infection is suscpeted in limping child?

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Do they look sick
Is there a refusal to weight bear?
What movements hurt most on hip movement?
Upper limb dissuse?

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What are the initial investigations into a limping child with suspected infection?

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Temperature
X-ray?
Bloods - WCC, CRP, ESR, CK + cultures

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What is the presentation of septic arthritis?

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Limping
Pseudoparalysis
Swollen, red joint
Refusal to move said joint
Pain + temperature
Most common in hip + knee
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How should you investigate septic arthrtis?

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FBC, ESR, CRP
blood cultures (usually staph A)
US!
Synovial fluid asporation - gramstain + culture

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How do you treat septic arthrits?

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Aspiration
Athroscopy
Arthrotomy
Antiobiotics IV

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What are the risk factors for osteomyelitis?

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blunt trauma

Recent infection

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What is teh pathogenesis of acute haemotgenous osteomyelitis?

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Vascular loops with terminal braches
Inhibited phagocytosis (due to low pO2)
Trauma

Rare in adults

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What are the indicatins for surgery in osteomyelitis?

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When any of the following need to be carried out
Aspiration for culture
Drainage of subperiosteal abscess
Drainage of joint sepsis
Debridement of dead tissue
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What are the symptoms of transient synovitis?

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Limping, often touch weight bearing
Slightly unwell
History of viral infection (URTI/ear)
Apyrexial
Allows joint to be examined
Low CRP, normal WCC
May have joint infusion
Not that unwell
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What are the most common shoulder or elbow injuries in teens/20s?

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Fractures + instability

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What are the most common injuries to shoulder and elbow in people in 30s-40s?

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Rotator uff muscle injury

Capsulitis

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What are teh most common injuries t the shoulder/elbow in the 50s/60s age group?

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Impingement of AC joint

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What is the most common injury of shoulder and elbow of 70s+?

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Degnerative rotator cuff and joint

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What is the epideimiology of UL fractures int eh varying age groups?

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Young - high energy fracture

Elderly - osteoporotic

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What is the likelyhood of an anterior shoulder dislocation?

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90%

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What is subacromial impingement?

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Pain/dysfunction from any pathology which
Decreases volume of subacromial space
Increases size of contents

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How do you treat subacromial impingenment?

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Subacromial steroid injection
Physio
Arthroscopic subacromial decompression

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30
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How do you diagnose frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)?

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Clinical

X-ray

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How do you treat a frozen shoulder?

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If early - steroid injection

Iflater - surgery

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What are the symtpoms of frozen shoulder?

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First 0-9 months pain
Stiffness from about 4-5 months
And then thawing
Can last up to 18-24 months

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What are the types of rotator cuff tears?

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Traumatic

Degenerative

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34
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How do you treat rotator cuff tears?

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Acute - early surgery
Chronic degnerative - surgery if symptomatic
Depends on size, time and age

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What are the types of shoulder arthritis?

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Osteoarthritis
Inflmammatory arthritis
Post traumatic arthritis

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What are the common elbow pathologies?

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Fractures/dislocations in young
Tendinopathies middle age
Degenerative disease in elderly

Cubital tunnel syndrome any age

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What are the main nerves that get effected by ner palsies?

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Ner roots
Brachial plexus
Sacral + lumbar plexus
Peripheral nerves

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38
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What is hilton’s law?

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Nerves crossing a joint supply both the joint and the musles acting on it

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What are the types of palsies that can affect the brachial plexus?

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Erb’s palsy
Klumpke’s palsy
Total brachial plexus palsy

40
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What are the roots of the main myotomes? (UL)

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C5 - elbow flexors
C6 - wrist extensors
C7 - Elbow extensors
C8 - Finger extensors
T1 - Intrinsic hand muscles
41
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What are the roots of the main myotomes of the LL?

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L2 - hip flexors
L3 - knee extensors
L4 - Ankle dorsiflexors
L5 - Long toes extensors
S1 - Ankle plantar flexors
42
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What can cause an axillary nerve palsy?

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Shoulder dislocation

Fracture surgical neck of humerus

43
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What are the symptoms of radial nerve palsy?

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Dependant on site of lesion
Wrist - loss of sensation
Forearm - loss of finger extension
arm - loss of wrist extension
Axilla - kiss if elbow extension
44
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What can cause carpal tunnel syndrome?

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Trauma (distal radius fracture)
Swellings (ganglion, fibroma, lipoma)
Inflammatory (rhuem, gout, TB, amyloid)
Metabolic - pregnancy, hypothyroidism, mucopolysaccharidoses

45
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What are the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome?

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Nocturnal pain + parasethesia in median nerve

Wasting of thenar muscles

46
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What is cubital tunnel syndrome?

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Nerve entrapment (second most common)
Cubital tunnel between medial epicondyle and olecranon
Numbness on ulnar side of hand + difficulty with fine tasks

47
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What are the symptoms of ulnar nerve palsy?

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Wasting of muscles - 1st webspace
Guttering
Hypothenar wasting

Claw hand - Yperextenstion at MCP and flexion at ICJ

48
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What is the ulnar paradox?

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Distal lesion has a worse clawing than proximal lesion

Due to intact long flexors with distal lesion

49
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What is forment’s test?

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Get patient to hold sheet
If ulnar not working then thumb is bent
If negative thumb flat against 2ns digit

50
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What is meralgia parasthetica?

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Altered sensation + pain in lateral thigh

Compression of lateral femoral cutaneous nerve as travels under lateral border of inguinal ligament

51
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What is the sign of common peroneal nerve palsy?

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Foot drop

Slapping gait

52
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What type of joint is the intervertebral disc?

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Secondary cartiliginous

53
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What makes up the intervertebral discs?

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Annulus fibrous (outer layer - very tough)
Nucleus pulpous - gelatinous core
54
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When do discs fail?

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Twisting movement

55
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What direction do discs normally fil?

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Posteriolateral

56
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What are the degenerative pathological processes of the spine?

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Tearing annulus fibrosis + protrusion of nucleus
Nerve root compression by osteophytes
Central spinal stenosis
Abnormal movement
(spondylosis + spondylodesis)
57
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What are the presenting features of nerve root pain?

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Limb pain worse than back pain
Pain in a radicular distribution (like nerve root)
Root tension signs
Root compression signs
Affected dermatomes/myotomes
58
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How do you manage nerve root pain?

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Physio
Strong analgesia
Most settle within 3 months
Refer for MRI after 12 weeks

59
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What are the types of prolapse possible?

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Bulge (common and mostly asymptomatic)
Protrusion (annulus intact but weakened
Extrusion (through annulus but intact
Sequestration (dessicated material inside spinal canal)

60
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What is the most common cervical disc prolapse?

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C5/6

61
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What are the most common thoracic disc prolapse - how common are tehey overall?

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Less than 1% of all prolapses
Most at T11-12
75% from T8-12

62
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What are the most common lumbar prolapses (and direction)?

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Normally L4/5 (45%)
L5/S1 - 40%
L3/4 - 10%
Most posteriolateral as posterior longitudinal ligamnet weakest

63
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What is the loss at L5/S1 prolapse?

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Little toe + sole of foot sensory loss
Motor weakness in plantar flexion foot
Ankle jerk reflex change

64
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What is the loss at L4/L5 prolapse?

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Great toe + 1st web space sensory loss
Extensor hallucis longus weakness
No reflex changes

65
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What is the loss at L3/L4 prolapse?

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Medial aspect of lower leg sensory loss
Quadriceps weakness
Knee jerk reflex change

66
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What are the symptoms of cauda equina syndrome?

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Bowel/bladder dysfunction
Saddle anaesthesia, loss of anal tone/reflex
Urinary retention
Leg weakness

67
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What is spondylosis?

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A coomon disease; effectively osteoarthritis
Degenerative changes at facet joints, discs + ligaments
Can sometimes cause myelopathy if severe

68
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What are the ligaments of the spine?

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Anterior longitudinal ligament
Posterior longitudinal ligament
Ligamentum flavum
Interspinous and supraspinous ligaments
Intertransverse ligament
69
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Where do the longitudinal ligaments of the spine run?

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Anterior - front of vertebral bodies (broad and strong)

Posterior - along back of vertebral bodies (narrower)

70
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Where does the ligamentum flavum run?

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Between laminae

71
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Where do the inter/supraspinous ligaments run?

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Between the spinous processes

72
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Where do the intertransverse ligaments run?

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Between transverse processes

73
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How is spinal cluadication distinguished from vascular claudication?

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Spinal claudication:

Usually bilateral
Sensory dysaethesaie
Poss weaknss (foot drop)
Several minutes to ease after walking
Worse walking down hills because spinal canal becomes smaller in extension
Beter riding uphill/riding bicyles
74
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What are the types of spinal stenosis?

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Lateral recess stenosis
Central stenosis
Foraminal stenosis

75
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How do you treat lateral recess stenosis/foraminal?

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Non-operative measures
Nerve root injection
Epidural injection
Surgery

76
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How do you treat central stenosis?

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Non-op meausres
Epidural steroid injection
Surgery (80% improve)

77
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What is an injury?

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Physical damage or harm caused by accident or by an attack

Damage due to application of mechanical force

78
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How are injuries classified?

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By appearance/causation
Abraison, contusion, laceration, incised wounds
Gunshot wounds, burns etc

Manner of causation - suicidal, accidental etc
Nature - blunt force, sharp force explosive etc

79
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What are blunt force injuries?

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Caused by impact with blunt objects
Can be:
Contusions (bruises) - 
Abraisons (graze/scratch) 
Lacerations (cut/tear)
80
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What affects the prominence of bruises?

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Skin pigmentition
Depth + location (mostly over loose skin)
Fat - more subcut fat more bruses
Age - children + elderly
Coagulative areas
81
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What are the resilient areas to brusing?

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Buttocks

Abdomen

82
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What is a sharp force injury + types?

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Injury iwth any sharp cutting edge
Incision
Stab wound

83
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What are passive defensive injuries?

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Victum raises arms/legs for protection

Sliced, shelved often with skin flaps of hands and forearms (sharp weapon)

84
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What are active defensive type injuries?

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Victum trying to grab weapon or attackers hand

Sliced shelved incised wounds on palmar aspect of hand + web spaces

85
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What is the pattern to self inflicted injuries?

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Commonly sharp force
Site tends to be wrist/forearms, chest and abdomen
Often parallel with multiple and tentative incisions

86
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What do the consequences of injury depend on?

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Type of mechanical insult
Nature of targeted tissue
Forces involved
Number of impacts

87
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What are the symptoms fo blood loss from brain?

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35ml - symptomatic
40-50ml - clinical deterioation, life threatening
80-100ml - commonly fatal due to herniation and raised ICP
150ml - fatal

88
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What causes a traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhange?

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Rapid rotational movement of head - usually result of single punch to jaw/upper part of neck/side of head
Sudden unexpected twisting movement
Traumatic rupture of vessels at base of brain
Immediately unconious and in cardiac arest

89
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What are the types of diffuse brain injury?

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Diffuse axonal (clinical term) - immediate and prolonged coma with no mass lesion/metabolic abnormality
TIA
Traumatic axonal injury (pathological term) - damage due to trauma

90
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What is a contusion?

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Bruises

burst vessels in skin

91
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What are teh types of skull fractures?

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Linear (little force i.e falling)
Depressed (against protrusion i.e weapons hammer etc)
Ring fractures - higher force (high storey land on feet)

92
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What is an abrasion?

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Abraisons (graze/scratch) - scraping of skin surface

93
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What is a laceration?

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Lacerations (cut/tear) - tear/split due to CRUSHING

94
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What is an incised wound (inscision)?

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Incised - superficial, slashing - longer than deep

95
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What is a stab wound?

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Stab wound - penetrating from thrusting motion

Depth greater than length

96
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What causes an extradural haemorrhage?

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Rupture of meningeal artery

Bleeding in space outside dura

97
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What causes a subdural haemorrhage?

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Breaking of bridging veins

Lucid injuries - slow progression

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