Ortho Flashcards
When treat scoliosis
Less than 20 conservative
Greater than 40 surgery
Schmorl’s nodes on X-ray
Scheurmanns disease
Scheurmanns disease
Increase kyphosis
Posture in child initiates concern , seen in middle adolescence
Anterior thoracic spine wedging
Compression fracture most common where ?
T10-L2
Pain on movement, better with rest
Tx: better to walk walk walk, NSAIDs surgery
If prescribe heat, question will want you to also do what?
Educate pt to not fall asleep
When is herniated disk pain worse?
Worse with sitting and valsalva
Better with waking
When is spinal stenosis worse?
Better?
Walking
Better with leaning on cart
Lasegues sign
Ankle dorsiflexion causes pain if lumbar radiculopathy.
Best test for pt you suspect has herniated disc with lumbar radiculopathy
Straight leg raise
Soondylolysis
Pars interarticularis
“Scotty dog fracture”
“Can touch toes no problem, hurts when stand up.”
Gymnast or football lineman
Spondylolysthesis
Two causes:
From a spondylolysis
Degenerative slip
L4/L5 or L5/S1
Most likely fatigue fracture that occurred as adolescent and failed to heal
Failure of posterior vertebral arches to close
Spins bifida
90% of subluxations are anterior or posterior?
Anterior
If posterior: “seizure or electrocution”
What xray view helps see a subluxation
Y view
Bancart lesion
Tears labrum as dislocates
Hill-Sachs Lesion
Recurrent dislocations causes damage to humeral head as it is abraded by rim of glenoid
Rotator cuff
Impingement vs tear
Impingement : pain
Tear : weakness
Best imaging to evaluate for rotator cuff injury?
MRI with arthrogram
Muscle most often injured with rotator cuff injury?
Supraspinatus
Yergason’s test
Supination – forearm Palm up (can hold bowl of soup in it)
Most common location of clavicle fracture
85% in middle one third of clavicle
Epicondylitis medial and lateral
Pain with what?
Medial– wrist flexion/ pronation
Golf
Lateral– extension/ supination
Tennis backhand
Fat pad sign and anterior sail sign is seen with what fracture
Radial head fracture
Median nerve
Sensory?
Motor?
Sensory : digits 1-4
Motor: thenar muscle
Finkelsteins test occurs with which condition ?
Dequarvians tensynovitis
Carpal tunnel -
Tests
gold standard for diagnosis
Tinel and Phalen’s test
Gold standard: Electrodiagnostic studies
Extension fracture from fall on an out stretched hand
Dinner fork deformity
Sprint
Colles fracture
Sugar tong splint
Smiths fracture
Flexion fracture of radius
Buckle fracture
Torus fracture
Boxers fracture
Splint
5th metacarpal fracture
Ulnar gutter splint
Pain in anatomical snuff box
Splint type
Scaphoid fracture
May take time to show up on xray-splint and repeat xray in 2 weeks
Thumb spica splint
Jersey finger
Inability to fix DIP joint
Usually ring finger
Mallet finger
Inability to extend DIP joint
Erica
Boutonnière deformity
Inability to extend PIP joint
Swan neck deformity
Hyperextension of PIP joint with flexion of DIP joint
Extension splint
Sag sign deformity
Posterior cruciate ligament tear
Meniscal tear
Effusion grows slower than ACL (6-24h)
Positive McMurrys
Positive Apleys
MRI gold standard
ACL
75% have hemarthrosis ** Swell up fast
Gamekeepers thumb / skiers thumb
Splint
Injury to ulnar collateral ligaments
Thumb spica splint
Depuytrens contracture
Typically affects palmar fascia
Painless lumps that form into cords
Ring and little finger
Age > 40, alcohol abuse ?
Osteoarthritis
Large joints
Pain with stairs, movie theater sign
Night pain
Hip dislocation
Limb shortened and INTeRNALLY rotated
Hip fractures
Shortened leg, typically in EXTERNAL rotation
Pain with knee forced into
Valgus
Varus
MCL
ACL
Bakers cyst treatment
NSAIDs
Compressive Brace
Aspiration / injection
surgery never works, but can try
Adolescent female with knee pain with stair walking and going from seated to standing
Patellofemoral syndrome
Pain, pallor, paresthesias, pulselessness, paralysis
Compartment syndrome
Burning pain between toes, most commonly the 3rd web space
Mortons neuroma
Where is a lisfranc fracture ?
1st and 2nd TMT joint
Posterior tibial tendon injury
Can’t walk or do heel rise
“Too many toes sign”
Positive Thompson test
Achilles’ tendon rupture
More cards:: see notes
Start at fifth metatarsal fracture
Para spinal hump
Scoliosis
Sodium urate crystals
Gout