Musculoskeletal Flashcards
Amount of motions, pain level, and modality for Tendinitis
One motion
General pain
Brace, ice
Motions, Pain, and Modalities for Bursitis
Several motions
Pinpoint pain
Adjust, heat, ice
Motions, Pain and Modalities for Capsulitis
Most motions
Adhesions
Adjust, heat, massage
Motions, Pain and Modalities for Calcification
No motions
Ankylosis (rare)
Yes till “bone on bone”
Kienbock’s
Carpal lunate
Prissier’s
Scaphoid
Legg Calve Perthes
Hip (2 years)
Osteochondritis Desiccans
Medial femoral condyle
Blounts
Medial tibial condyle
Osgood Schlatter
anterior tibial tuberosity
Kohler’s
Tarsal - navicular
Freiberg’s
Second metatarsal
Scheuermann’s
Disc end plates (1 year)
Treatment for Scheuermann’s
Brace, support, rest, heat on initial presentation
Rotator Cuff S/S, Hx, Dx, Tx
S/S: Night pain, usually above elbow, abduction and rotation painful
Hx: Pain for 1 year, 6 months gradually lack of use; supraspinatus and infraspinatus atrophy
Dx: Drop arm, MRI, US, CAT Scan, arthroscopy
Tx: Sling (10-14 days), ice, TENS, exercise (Codmans)
Adhesive Capsulitis (AKA Frozen Shoulder, adhesions) S/S, Dx, Tx
S/S: Persistent pain (night too), dull, nagging, progressive restriction of motion (active and passive)
Dx: ROM exam
Tx: Adjust, massage, exercise, TENS, moist hot packs
Bursitis S/S, Dx, Tx
S/S: Pinpoint pain, pain in multiple directions
Dx: Xray (calcification), MRI of joint
Tx: Adjust, PT, exercises
Dislocation S/S, Dx, Tx
S/S: (MOI) 90 abduct / external rotation (acute) forceful overhead motions (chronic); sudden sharp paralyzing pain while abducting indicates instability; “dead arm syndrome”
Dx: Anterior inferior deformity, axillary nerve entrapment, xray, hill sach’s (chronic)
Tx: Milch or Kocher’s method, sling and ice (3-6 wks) (<2 wks over 40 yo), hot packs, exercise (tubing, wand, very slow for 6 months), TENS, microcurrent
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSDS) aka Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) S/S, Dx, Tx
S/S: Post trauma (6-8 wks usually), hyperpathia (sensory) swollen, color changes, sweaty and/or dry, burning pain (causalgia)
Dx: Plethysmograph (blood flow to extremity increased); Thermography (usually cold); Xray (spotty demineralization); three phase radionucleotide scintigraphy (most sensitive test)
Tx: Touch and motion, fluidotherapy, massage (light, deep, light), adjustments, exercise (scrub brush, crutch walking for lower ext.), acupuncture, US, TENS
Impingement AKA Swimmer’s Shoulder S/S, Dx, Tx
Rotator cuff and/or subacromial bursa, entrapment between humerus and coracoacromial arch resulting in rotator cuff lesions; caused by overhead sports activities and occupations
S/S: Diffuse lateral shoulder pain
1. achy, painful
2. night pain, rest doesn’t help, overhead sports 25-40 yo
3. loss range of motion, rotator rupture, bicipital tendon pain 40 years old
Dx: 1. Pain: 60-120 degrees abduction and 70-120 flexion and decreased ROM
2. Speed’s, Yergason’s and Codman’s tests
3. Xray: AC and shoulder DJD, HADD; MRI: Spurs, bursa, tendon tears
Tx: Adjust, rest, ice/heat, stretch, tape in ext rot, warm up, US, TENS, “rowing”
Tennis Elbow AKA Lateral Epicondylitis S/S, Dx, Tx
S/S: wrist extensors, weak grip, forearm atrophy, painful resisted extension, painful hyperflexion stretch (posterior radial head)
Dx: Mill’s Cozen’s, dynamometer
Tx: Adjust , TFM (transverse friction massage), US, brace, microcurrent, exercise (PNF, rope, weight)
Little Leaguer’s Elbow AKA Medial Epicondylitis
wrist flexors, adjust
Intra-articular effusion
Posterior fat pad - refer
Dislocation
posterior (m/c) refer
Carpal Tunnel S/S, Dx, Tx
S/S: Pain radiates into hand, arm, neck, tingling, numbness, weakness, cool hands, night pain relieved by shaking hand, effect first three digits
Dx: Tinels, Phalen’s Compression Test, NCV, EMG, SSEP, Tourniquet test (cuff diminishes arterial flow flow 30-60 sec)
Tx: Eliminate cause (change job, endocrine, pregnancy, PMS, etc), adjust wrist, elbow, neck, vitamin B6, ice and HVG, moist heat, diathermy for chronic, exercise (putty), cock up or plaster splint, modify job, breaks, stretch
Tunnel of Guyon S/S, Dx, Tx
S/S: numbness and weakness of last two digits
Dx: Tinels, muscle test, NCV, EMG, SSEP
Tx: Adjust (ulnar nerve entrapment), PT
Dupuytren’s (flexion contracture of last 2-3 fingers) S/S, DX, Tx
S/S: familial, related to alcoholism, post vascular accident
Dx: palpation of fascia, MRI
Tx: Surgery
Volkmann’s Ischemic Contracture S/S, Dx, Tx
(last 2-3 digits)
S/S: Post trauma usually (humerus fracture)
Dx: History, MRI
Tx: Adjust elbow, shoulder, spine, PT
Claw Hand S/S, Dx, Tx
PNE (last 2-3 digits)
Tx: adjust (ulnar nerve entrapment)
Benediction Hand S/S, Dx, Tx (cannot flex first 3 digits)
Dx: ROM, NCV, EMG
Tx: adjust (median nerve entrapment), PT