Patient with longstanding symptoms
Patient with longstanding symptoms:
Be sure the diagnosis is correct:
List of some conditions that are common in sports was not what they appeared at first:
Obvious diagnosis True diagnosis
- Migraine headache upper cervical zygapophyseal joint hypomobility
- Rotator cuff tendinopathy GH instability in younger athlete and AC joint OA in older athlete
- Tennis elbow Cervical disk abnormality
- Wrist tendinitis cervical abnormality
- Persistent hamstring strain Abnormal neural tension
- Patellofemoral pain Referred pain from hip
- Osgood schlatter lesion osteoid osteoma tibial tuberosity
- Shin splints stress fracture
- Plantar fasciitis medial plantar nerve entrapment
- Achilles tendinopathy retrocalcaneal bursitis
How can Physiotherapist help you with a proper diagnosis?
Physiotherapist will provide a detailed assessment of your problem, review records of your past treatment, attempt to elicit the underlying cause of the problem. In most of these patients, biomechanical problems are often the culprit. Physiotherapists are the best people who can assess biomechanical issues and can give you a proper diagnosis.
Dr Sumit Gupta PT
Bangalore shoulder and Sports medicine Institute.
