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Comprehensive exam in the office setting
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History Physical Exam ◦ Look ◦ Feel ◦ Move ◦ Special tests
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Direct Pain: 1. Soft tissue trauma: sharp to dull aching 2. Nerve generated: burning, lancing 3. Joint effusion: throbbing 4. Bone: dull boring pain Referred Pain: Joint above and below Radicular Pain: from c/s nerve root
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Inspection standing ◦ Full extension, carrying angle Palpation ◦ Med epicondyle, lat epicondyle, olecranon tip and radial head, ulnar nerve, olecranon bursa ROM (-10º to 150º flex/ext, up to 90º pronation/supination) Special Tests
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Epicondylitis ◦ Lateral epicondylitis ◦ Medial epicondylitis Instability ◦ UCL stress testing Nerve compression ◦ Tinel’s sign ◦ Ulnar nerve subluxation
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Inspection ◦ Deformity, wasting, swelling Palpation ROM ◦ Wrist flexion: 70 degrees ◦ Wrist extension: 70 degrees ◦ Ulnar deviation: 40 degrees ◦ Radial deviation: 20 degrees ◦ Forearm supination: 80 degrees ◦ Forearm pronation: 80 degrees Special Tests
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Tenosynovitis ◦ Flexor tests ◦ Finkelstein test Motor function tests ◦ Pinch, key and power grip Compression/neuropathies ◦ Tinel, Phalen, Froment sign Stability testing ◦ Ballottement testing ◦ Watson test ◦ Shuck test ◦ UCL thumb
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Finkelstein test for de Quervain’s Low specificity, moderate sensitivity
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Let’s practice.
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