LabDx

9/15/99

Quiz Monday on the Strategy

• Data Acquisition
• Sensory and non-sensory input used to gather the positive findings
• Non-sensory—clinical intuition
• Non conscious
• Cognitive and feelings
• Weight loss
• Belt w/too many holes
• Sense of the patient
• Need to keep personal bias out of the decision process
• Analysis
• Priority
• Most clinically significant brought forward first
• False positive would be the choice if you have to have one
• Probability
• The chances that you Dx could be
• Prevalence
• How often the situation may occur in that population of the patient
• Pedantry
• Systems—put each of the findings in the appropriate systems
• MS
• Neurological
• Vascular/immune
• Cardiorespiratory
• GI
• GU
• Metabolic/endocrine
• Dermatologic
• Differential Dx
• Categories
• Vascular
• Infection/Inflammation
• Congenital
• Trauma
• Arthritide
• Neoplasm
• Endocrine
• These categories can work for any of the systems
• LBP
• Vascular—Aortic aneurysm
• Arthritde—articular disorders (don't move through the rom or excessively move)
• Neoplasm
• Endocrine—osteoporosis
• Arthritide—biggest group that we will have
• Degenerative—associated w/pathomechanics
• Biggest group
• Hypermobility
• Instability—beyond hypermobile, like a loose tooth
• Disc herniation
• Spinal stenosis
• Myofascial pain—very common w/certain disorders
• Tendonitis
• Rostrocaudal subluxation—lose of disc space w/realignment of the facets
• Infection/inflammatory
• 2^nd group
• metabolic
• Least likely