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CERVICAL:
Whiplash (acceleration injury)
- Injury to mostly anterior neck flexors
- *Cervical compression Test
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CERVICAL:
Disc injuries and radiculopathies
- Radiating pain or paresthesias, spasm or weakness in myotomal distribution
- *Cervical compression test
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CERVICAL:
Entrapment/Impingement, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- Pain simalar as: tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, cervial radiculopathy. Pain in 4th or 5th digit at night
- *Anterior head
- *Raynaud's Phenomenon (hand turns white blue then red)
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CERVICAL:
Special Tests for TOS
- nerve tension tests
- Halstead Manuever
- Adson's
- Hyperabduction test
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Shoulder Joint:
Shoulder tendinitis (SITS)
- Swimmer's elbow- impingement under the coracoacromial arch
- Supraspinatus - *empty can test, hawkins kennedy
- infraspinatus- *painful arc 60-130
- subscapularis- * horizontal adduction test
- Biceps Brachii- * speeds test, hawkins kennedy
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ELBOW/FOREARM:
tennis elbow/lateral epicondylitis
- *ECRB - most commonly involved muscle
- * Police stop sign test
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ELBOW/FOREARM:
Medial epicondylitis/ Golfer's elbow
*Pronator Teres, Common flexor tendon at medial epicondyle
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ELBOW/FOREARM:
De Quervain's Tensynovitis
- tenosynovitis at the base of the thumb :abductor pollicis longus, extensor pollicis brevis (snuffbox)
- *finklestein's test
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ELBOW/FOREARM:
Carpal Tunnel
- Compression of Median Nerve, passes thru tunnel with 9 other tendons. More in older women
- pain felt in digits 1-3 and lateral 1/2 of 4th digit
- *thenar eminence weak
- *Phalen's, Reverse Phalen's, o-ring's test, Tinnel's sign
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ELBOW/FOREARM:
Ulnar Nerve
- ulnar nerve moves through the pisohamate (canal of Guyom)
- *Claw Hand
- pain with flexor carpi ulnaris movements
- *Ulnar Nerve tension test, positive tinnel's sign
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ELBOW/FOREARM:
Radial Nerve
- *Saturday night palsy- compression on humerous
- Wrist Drop
- Radial Nerve Tension test
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