Week 12- MSK Flashcards
An anatomical term used to refer to the joint-related structures outside of a joint:
Extra-articular
Include the joint capsule and articular cartilage, synovium and synovial fluid
Articular structures
Usually involves swelling and tenderness of the entire joint:
Articular disease
Includes peri-articular ligaments, tendons, bursae, muscle, fascia, bone, never and overlying skin:
Extra-articular structures
Typically involved point or focal tenderness in the regions adjacent to the articular structure:
Extra-articular disease
This type of disease can have crepitus, instability, locking or deformity; may have limited AROM and PROM d/t pain and stiffness
Articular disease
This type of disease rarely causes swelling, instability, or joint deformity
Extra-articular disease
This connects bone to bone:
Ligaments
These connect muscle to bone:
Tendons
These are pouches of synovial fluid that cushions the movement of the tendons and muscles over bone and other joint structures
Bursae
Intervening layers of fibrous tissue or cartilage that holds the bones together:
Fibrous joints i.e. sutures of the skull
This is the leading cause of patients seeking health care:
Joint pain
This type of joint disease has decrease AROM and PROM, am stiffness (gelling)
Articular
In this type of joint disease the pain is periarticular tenderness and only PROM remains intact:
Non-articular joint pain/disease
Pain in a single joint suggests:
Mono articular arthritis, tendinitis, bursitis (extra-articular)
Polyarticular involves several joints. Examples include:
Rheumatoid fever or gonococcal arthritis
This is a pattern that is additive, progressive and symmetrical:
RA
Extra-articular pain examples:
Bursitis, tendinitis, tenosynovitis (tendon sheaths), as well as sprains of ligaments
If pain comes with trauma the what is very important to assess?
Mechanism of injury or specific series of events
Severe rapid pain in a red, swollen joint suggests:
Arthritis or gout
In kids- osteomyelitis
Fever plus chills with joint pain consider:
Septic arthritis
Am stiffness that gradually improves is associated with:
Inflammatory causes such as RA and PRM
Lupus can present with:
Malar rash