Orthopaedics

Back pain

Back Pain Red Flags A really effective way of taking a history is to ensure you’ve covered all the red flag symptoms. As a junior doctor you’re not expected to know the minutiae of how to treat every condition, but you most certainly are expected to be able to spot an emergency, or potentially veryContinue reading “Back pain”

Orthopaedic surgery

PTOT

VTE risk

Avoiding preventable deaths in hospital

Ankylosing Spondylitis

I find it really hard to remember the features of the individual rheumatic conditions because there is so much overlap, so I started making stories for each to try and get it straight in my head. Today’s is Ankylosing Spondylitis, one of the several seronegative spondyloarthropathies that is not massively common (1/100 000) but still importantContinue reading “Ankylosing Spondylitis”

How to examine the hands

A recipe for a confident hand examination

How to examine the shoulder

A recipe for a slick orthopaedic shoulder examination