Musculoskeletal

Think about the following useful approaches to help determine differential diagnoses

formusculoskeletal complaints:

• Acute or chronic in duration

Acute Chronic

- Acute musculoskeletal injury

impliespain of less than 6 weeks’

duration.

- Non-articular condition consider:

• Trauma/fracture

• Fibromyalgia

• Polymyalgia rheumatica

• Bursitis

• Tendinitis

- Articular condition consider:

•Acute arthritis

Infectious

arthritisGout

Pseudogout

Reactive

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