General Musculoskeletal Assessment Principles

Contents

1.0 Introduction
2.0 General Points on Questioning
3.0 What do our Patients come to see us
for? 
4.0 Red Flags
5.0 The Present Condition (PC)
5.1 Type of Pain
5.2 Depth of Pain
5.3 Behaviour of Symptoms
5.4 24 Hour Pattern
5.5 Special Questions
5.6 Behaviour of Pain & Pain Mechanisms
6.0 History of Present Condition (HPC)
7.0 Yellow Flags
8.0 Previous Medical History (PMH)
9.0 Drug History (DH)
10. Social History (SH)
11.  SIN Factor
12.  Planning the Objective Examination
13.  The Objective Examination
14.  Observation
15.  ROM (active/passive/resisted)
15.1 End feel
15.2 Capsular Patterns
16.  Neurological Examination
17.  Neurodynamic Examination
18. Muscle Length/Strength/Endurance
19.  Palpation
20.  Specific Testing
21.  The Impression
22.  Initial Treatment Plan
23.  Bibliography
App 1 – Masqueraders
App2 – Theoretical Aggravating & Easing
Factors
App3 – Lower Limb Dermatomes

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