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| Pain and tenderness over the affected tendons; usually aggravated by overhead activities with weakness in lifting the arm |
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| Pain in the shoulder and significant loss of ROM, especially abduction and external rotation. Muscle testing is usually strong within the available range. Usually seen in elderly |
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| Pain and tenderness over the affected tendons; usually aggravated by resisted elbow flexion. May have a snap or click of the biceps tendons |
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| Speed’s test [flexion of the shoulder against resistance while the elbow is extended and the forearm supinated; pain in the bicipital groove is +] test may be positive |
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| No specific ortho test is used for this condition, although the Painful Arc (Impingement Sign Test) [bring arm into full flexion, pain or unable to bring arm all the way up] test may be positive |
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Supraspinatous Press Test (Empty Can Test)[abduct arm to 90 degrees then resist abduction; then medially rotate the arm 30 degrees, point the thumb down and resist adduction] test may be positive
Lift-off Test (subscapularis) [patient lifts dorsum of the hand off the sacrum]
test may be positive |
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Cozen [resisted wrist extension with the elbow extended] test may be positive
Mills [active flexion of the wrist while extending the elbow] test may be positive
The Mill’s test is more sensitive |
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| LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS [Tennis elbow] |
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| he patient may complain of pain or weakness on gripping |
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| MEDIAL EPICONDYLITIS [Golfer’s elbow] |
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Reverse Cozen [resisted wrist flexion with the elbow extended] test may be positive
Tinel’s sign may be positive over the ulnar nerve if an ulnar neuropathy coexists |
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| MEDIAL EPICONDYLITIS [Golfer’s elbow] |
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| Obvious inflammation of the bursa at the elbow, may present with pain. If the bursa is large enough, there may be restricted motion of the elbow. In infection, there may be a wound, redness and the bursa may be warm and tender |
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| medial nerve–C5, 6, 7, 8, T1]: Numbness and pain in the distal forearm or wrist radiating into the palmar aspect of the first three and a half digits of the hand; worse at night |
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| CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME (Median nerve) |
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Tinel’s [tapping over the middle of the palmar aspect of the wrist] may reproduce the symptoms
Phalen’s [flexing the wrists for 1 minute] may also reproduce the symptoms
Reverse Phalen’s (Prayer Sign) [extending the wrists, aggravating the neural
sheath] may also reproduce the symptoms |
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| CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME (Median nerve) |
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Nerve Conduction Velocity will be useful in confirming the nerve damage
There will be a decrease in the conduction speed in the affected nerve
EMGs might be helpful in the differential diagnostic process |
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| CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME (Median nerve) |
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Elbow Tunnel [ulnar nerve-C8, T1]: Numbness and pain in the medial aspect of the ring and the little fingers
Guyon’s Canal syndrome [ulnar nerve-C8, T1]: Pain or paresthesia along the little finger and medial half of ring finger |
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| CUBITAL TUNNEL/ TUNNEL OF GUYON (Ulnar nerve) |
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Tinel’s test is positive when tapping over the medial humeral epicondyle at the Cubital Tunnel
Froment’s paper sign might be positive-unable to grasp paper between the pulps of the thumb and index finger (ulnar nerve paralysis) at the Tunnel of Guyon |
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| CUBITAL TUNNEL/ TUNNEL OF GUYON (Ulnar nerve) |
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Nerve Conduction Velocity will be useful in confirming the nerve damage
There will be a decrease in the conduction speed in the affected nerve
EMGs might be helpful in the differential diagnostic process |
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| CUBITAL TUNNEL/ TUNNEL OF GUYON (Ulnar nerve) |
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| Radial wrist pain, aggravated by gripping and ulnar deviation |
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| DE QUERVAIN’S TENOSYNOVITIS |
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| Finkelstein test [patient makes fist and tucks thumb inside, while the examiner ulnar deviates the hand] may be positive |
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| DE QUERVAIN’S TENOSYNOVITIS |
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| Numbness or tingling over the dorsolateral aspect of the wrist and hand |
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| CHEIRALGIA PARESTHETICA (Wartenberg’s Syndrome) |
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| Tinel’s test may be positive, pain may be reproduced by passive ulnar deviation and flexion of the wrist |
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| CHEIRALGIA PARESTHETICA (Wartenberg’s Syndrome) |
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| Dorsal wrist pain, that may or may not have a palpable cyst, made worse with wrist dorsiflexion. Cases have shown the smaller the cyst, the more symptomatic. Most commonly found at the dorsal scapholunate ligament or at the metacarpal heads |
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