Stephas Flashcards
Hip rx questions to ask
Have you fallen in the past year
Do you feel unsteady when walking and or standing
Do you worry about falling
Ask these questions for 65 year old and up
Scaphoid fx at risk for what
AVn
Complications due to retrograde blood flow
Other bones associated with this is femoral neck, scaphoid, lunate
Game keeper thumb
Fx at ulnar collateral ligament MPJ of thumb
Pt will have pain and swelling with laxity at UCL ligament
Mallet finger
D/t pain when smashing finger
Splint for 6-8 walks be careful when removing splint
Green stick fx
3rd most common fx for kids
FOOSH mOA
Check joint above and below
Think abuse in less than 1 year old
AC joint seperation
Occurs from forceful fall on shoulder
Will have a bump on joint
Tx: ice, rest, nsaids
AC joint seperation grading
1-3 non operable, 4-6 operable
Starts from simple dislocation to worse and worse
Tibia shaft fx
Occurs from high impact injury like parachuting so think of joints above and below
Complications can occur such as compartment sx, and avn, 3 compartments in thigh and 4 in lower leg pain swelling and paresthesias will occur
Weber classification
A- below syndesonosis - nwb 4 - 6 wk boot
b- level of syndesonosis
c- above levle syndesnosis surgery requiered
Lisfranc injury
Injury of mid foot fracture
Get weight bearing xr and ct if sus still
Trochanter bursitis
Pain at brusa in hip hot joint “snapping hip syndrome”
Piriformis injury syndrome
Tightening shortening hypertrophy of muscle can cause low back pain
Hip dislocation
Rare occurrence and considered medical emergency
Tri joint complex name
Zygapophyseal facet joint
Cauda equine syndrome
Sx: saddle anesthesia, lose of control of urine or bowel syndrome, foot drop, neurological symptoms, unexpected rectal laxity
Order: MRI, call neurosurgery
Caused: my massive midline disc herniation and compression of the cord
Sx: BL weakness adn numbness