Thoracic DDx
A patient reports intermittent UE numbness and tingling, symptoms worsen with overhead activity, Roos test reproduces symptoms, and posture shows forward head/rounded shoulders-this diagnosis best explains symptoms driven by positional neurovascular compression rather than true nerve injury.
What is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?
A patient reports localized anterior chest wall pain that is sharp and reproducible with palpation near the sternum, worsens with deep breathing and upper-extremity movement, and presents with no cardiopulmonary red flags—this diagnosis best explains a musculoskeletal source of chest pain rather than cardiac pathology.
What is Costochondritis (Tietze’s syndrome)?
Adolescent with visible spinal curve and uneven shoulders.
What is Scoliosis?
Unilateral headache provoked by neck movement, reduced cervical range, reproduces pain with upper cervical testing.
What is Cervicogenic Headache?
Semester 1 : The "Anterior Drawer Test" used for what?
Test for Anterior Talus Displacement Relative to Tibia (ATFL sprain)
This inflammatory condition primarily affects the axial spine and SI joints and is associated with morning stiffness that improves with activity.
What is Ankylosing Spondylitis?
Pulsatile mass, deep unrelenting pain, vascular risk factors, non-mechanical.
What is Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)?
This condition involves compression of the brachial plexus and/or subclavian vessels as they pass between the neck and shoulder.
What is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?
Unilateral throbbing headache with nausea, photophobia, phonophobia, worsened by activity.
What is Migraine?
What does the Talocrural Anterior to Posterior (AP) Glide improve?
Dorsiflexion
Unilateral dermatomal burning rash
What is Herpes Zoster (Shingles)?
Upper thoracic stiffness, bilateral UE paresthesia, night pain, normal imaging.
What is T4 Syndrome?
The key anatomical features involved are the anterior longitudinal ligament (ALL), entheses, posterior longitudinal ligament (PLL), and annulus fibrosis.
What is Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH)?
Jaw locks open, painful closing, history of wide opening or yawning.
What is TMJ Subluxation?
What PNF Technique is this : Therapist moves the patient passively through the range , establishing appropriate speed and rhythm using verbal cues.
Movements are progressed to active assisted, lightly resisted, and then independent movement.
Rigid thoracic kyphosis
What is Scheuermann Disease?
Traction nerve injury
What is a Brachial Plexus Injury?
Fixed vertebral rotation
What is Scoliosis?
Fever neck stiffness
What is Meningitis?
What is the purpose of the "Fulcrum Test"
Ossification
What is Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH)?
Dermatomal
What is Herpes Zoster (Shingles)?
Night-pain
What is T4 Syndrome?
Vertigo
What is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) ?
You got a riddle : The more you move forward, the more of me you leave behind, yet you never lose me.
What are footsteps?