Musculoskeletal System Flashcards
What happens in dislocation of the shoulder?
- Head of the humerus is forcibly removed from its socket in the glenoid fossa
When may dislocation of the shoulder occur?
- If you fall on to your arm heavily in rugby or sports related injury
- FOOSH
What are the symptoms of dislocation of the shoulder?
- Cannot move the arm
- Shoulder will look square
- Lump under the skin
- Pain
What is the treatment for dislocation of the shoulder?
- Reduction
- Surgery if tissue damage
What is a humeral neck fracture caused by?
- Low energy falls in the elderly
- trauma in young person
What are the symptoms of humeral neck fractures?
Pain and swelling with decreased motion
accessory nerve damage
What is the treatment for humeral neck fractures?
- Sling immobalisation
- Rehabilitation
- Surgery e.g. pinning or rodding
What is impingement of the shoulder?
- Tendon inside your shoulder rubs or catches on nearby tissue and bone as you lift your arm
What causes impingement of the shoulder?
- Injury or overuse of the shoulder
What are the symptoms of impingement of the shoulder?
- Pain in the top and outer side of your shoulder that gets worse when you lift your arm
- may ache at night and have weakness
What is the treatment for impingement of the shoulder?
- Avoid things that make it worse but dont stop moving it
- Use and ice pack
- Take pain killers
- Shoulder exercises
- Steroid injections
- Surgery
What is Calcific supraspinatus tendonitis?
- Calcific deposits inside or around tendons of the rotator cuff
- Supraspinatus and intraspinatus tendons
What causes calcific supraspinatus tendonitis?
- Degeneration
- Chemical factors
- Calcium deposition
What are the symptoms of calcific supraspinatus tendonitis?
- Severe pain spontaneously
- Frozen shoulder
What is the treatment for calcific supraspinatus tendonitis?
- Steroid injections
- Shock wave therapy
- Surgery
What muscles are affected by Rotator cuff tears?
- Subscapularis
- Supraspinatus
- Infraspinatus
- Teres minor
What is a rotator cuff tear?
- Usually the supraspinatus tendon may tear due to injury or degeneration
- can be any muscle though
What are the symptoms of a rotator cuff tear?
- Pain at night and when lifting and lowering the arm
- Weakness in arm and crackling when moving the arm
What is the treatment for a rotator cuff tear?
- Rest
- Activity modification
- Anti-inflammatory medications
- strengthening exercises
- steroid injections
- surgery
What shoulder joints can be affected with osteoarthritis?
- Glenohumeral joint
- Acromioclavicular joint
- Become painful and stiff
What causes increase risk of osteoarthritis?
- Joint injury
- Age
- Family history
- Obesity
- Other Arthritis
What is the treatment for osteoarthritis?
- Regular exercise
- losing weight
- wearing devices to reduce strain
- surgery to remove peices of damaged cartilage or joint replacement
What causes a medial epicondylar fracture of the humerus?
- FOOSH
- Elbow dislocation
- Direct blow
- Usually in children
What are the symptoms of medial epicondylar fracture of the humerus?
- Medial elbow pain with tenderness over medial epicondyle
What is the treatment for medial epicondyle fracture of the humerus?
- Immobalisation in a long arm cast for 2 weeks
- surgery if displaced or if ulnar nerve dysfunction
What is a dislocated elbow?
- Where the radius and ulna move out of place compared with the humerus
What causes elbow dislocations?
FOOSH
What are the symptoms of elbow dislocations?
- Pain and deformity of the joint
What is the treatment for elbow dislocation?
- Reduction
- Put in plaster with a sling
What is another name for a pulled elbow?
- Nursemaids elbow or radial head subluxation
What causes a pulled elbow?
- Pulling of the arm e.g. when swinging a child by there arms
What are the symptoms of a pulled elbow?
Painful arm and does not want to use it
What is the treatment for a pulled elbow?
- Nurse or doctor will move the arm in a certain way to slip the bone back inside the ring of ligament
What is olecranon bursa?
- Fluid filled sac that cushion elbow joint becomes inflammed
What are the symtoms of olecranon bursitis?
- Painful tender and swollen joint
What is the treatment for olecranon bursa?
- Usually will go away on its own
- Needle can be inserted to drain
- Surgery to remove it
What is a Colles fracture?
Dorsal angulation fracture of distal radius
What causes a Colles fracture?
FOOSH in extension
How are Colles and Smiths fractures treated?
Closed reduction and cast immobilsation
What is a Smiths fracture?
- Palmar angulation fracture of the distal radius
What causes a Smiths fracture?
FOOSH in flexion
What is a scaphoid fracture?
- Break in one of the small bones of the wrist
What causes a scaphoid fracture?
- FOOSH
What are the symptoms of a scaphoid fracture?
- Pain and tenderness in the area just below the base of the thumb
How is a scaphoid fracture treated?
- Casting or surgery
What is Rheumatoid arthritis?
- Long term condition that causes swelling and stiffness in the joints
- Autoimmune condition so thebody attacks the cells that line the joints
- genetics, hormones and smoing increase risk
What are the symptoms of Rheumatoid arthritis?
- Joint pain
- Swelling
- Stiffness
- Inflammation
What is the treatment for Rheumatoid arthritis?
- DMARDS
- Biological treatments
- have side effects
Where is a common site of osteoarthritis in the hand in post menopausal women?
1st CMC joint and distal interphalageal joints including Heberden’s nodes
What are the symptoms of osteoarthritis in the hands?
- Tenderness
- Stiffness
- Crepitus
- Swelling
- Pain