Definitions
Symptoms
How do you code
The difference between
100
Arthropathy
What is a disorder of the joint?
100
Associated with and is a symptom of disc herniation.
What is back pain?
100
742.5 Backache, unspecified
307.89 Other pain disorder related to psychological factors
How do you code psychogenic backache?
100
One is a disorder of the back, while the other is a disorder of the spinal coder.
What is the difference between dorsopathy and myelopathy?
200
Arthritis
What is the inflammation of the joint?
200
Patients with this syndrome often experience pain and swelling, swelling, weakness, and a locking and clicking sensation of the knee.
What is plica syndrome?
200
139.8, Late effect of other infectious and parasitic disease
711.8x , Arthropathy associated with other infectious and parasitic diseases
How do you code Arthritis that is a late effect of the Lyme disease?
200
The difference between the two disease is that one is wear and tear on the disks located in between each vertebra, while the other occurs when the cushion that sits between the spinal vertebra is pushed outside its normal position.
What is the difference between disk degeneration and disk displacement (herniation)?
300
Lumbago
What is an acute or chronic pain (as that caused by muscle strain) in the lower back?
300
Symptoms of this disease include inflammation, swelling, pain, stiffness, and mobility problems.
What is arthritis?
300
088.81, Lyme disease
711.8x, Arthropathy associated with other infectious and parasitic diseases
How do you code Lyme disease that is currently active?
300
One condition occurs in bones that are weakened by disease such as osteoporosis, Paget's disease, metastatic tumor of the bone, while the other occurs due to physiological conditions such as cancer that results in damage to the bone.
What is the difference between stress fractures and pathological fractures?
400
May be associated with Lyme disease, either as a component of current disease or as a late effect.
What is arthritis?
400
A sensation of pricking, tingling, or creeping on the skin having no objective cause and usually associated with injury or irritation of a sensory nerve or nerve root
What is paresthesia?
400
Assign codes from category 715, Osteoarthrosis and allied disorders, for osteoarthritis, except for when this body part (process) is involved.
How do you code osteoarthritis involving spine?
400
This disease is also known as also known as polyarticular degenerative arthritis and affects joints in the spine, knee, and hip, as well as joints of the hands and feet. While this disease is called monoarticular arthritis, is confined to the joints of one area and results from some external or internal injury or disease.
What is the difference between primary localized arthritis and secondary localized arthritis?
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