Spine Pain

This radiograph is from an elderly woman who accidently fell down a flight of stairs.  She has had persistent back pain since that time.  Each student should add one piece of information to this case.  It can be to describe normal or abnormal things on the radiograph, a finding about whatever you think the diagnosis of this radiograph is, what is a symptom, or what you would do during physical examination.  Each blog post should be a different piece of information to lead us toward an accurate diagnosis. 

65 year old with back pain

This image is from 65 year old with complaint of back pain after having week long cold with significant amount of coughing.  Pain is general ache, but sharp with rotation and bending activities.
Please make one comment of things you see in this image.  Comments can be of things that are normal or abnormal.

Please read this article about postoperative musculoskeletal ultrasound. 
Comment on one important "take home" point that you learned about ultrasound after reading this article. 


http://e-ultrasonography.org/upload/usg-15006.pdf

This is a chest radiograph of a 50 year old male who started having pain with deep breathing and coughing following returning from a trip to Italy.  Reports pain began after lifting heavy luggage at Eisenhower International Airport upon return home.  View radiographs and describe what you feel like you may see and also add one differential diagnosis pathology that you may need to rule out with his history.

This should be an easy image to start with.  16 year old female with neck pain following MVA.
On the blog thread, each participant should add one item.  Choose from the following.  Symptom she would be potentially having, a fact about the injury she has incurred, what is normal or abnormal about the images shown.

Foot Pain

Please see the image below of patient with primary complaint of medial foot pain.  Patient was training for marathon and when jumping off of a curb to pavement felt a "pop" while training.  they have had foot pain ever since.  Each student should add something to the thread.  It does not need to be a positive finding that you add it could be something describing a normal finding.

16 Year Old Male with Knee Pain

This is a 16 year old male with medial knee pain, swelling and loss of range of motion.  Insidious onset.  Started hurting after beginning basketball practice.  Can walk FWB but this seems to cause more swelling and discomfort.  Rest and decreased WB help.  View the AP image and each member of the class note one thing about the image.  You are welcome to make a guess as to what you think the problem is.  Uses ABCs to make comments regarding this image.  You should not need to make the same comments as long as everyone sticks to only one comment about the image.