Cumulative Trauma Disorders

Cumulative Trauma Disorders

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  • No man’s land in flexor tendon → Zone 2
  • Infertility workupWHO grade 2 is most common
  • BE FAN VEIN
  • Patellar clunk syndrome

HLA associations

HLAs
Diseases
DQ1
• Pemphigus Vulgaris
DQ7
• BP variant
DQ2 / DQ8
• Celiac disease
Seal with DQ ()
DR2
• Good Pasteur’s (GBS)
• Narcolepsy (DQB1:06:02)
• Multiple sclerosis
(B16, DR2)
2nd - Good doctor () - have MS () - always sleeps ()
DR3
Chronic active hepatitis
Dermatitis herpetiformis
SLE
Sjogren’s
T 1 DM
DR4
Rheumatoid arthritis
Pemphigus vulgaris (DQ1, DR4)
DR5
• Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (DR3, DR5)
B27
Ankylosing spondylitis
Reactive arthritis
Psoriatic arthritis
B35
De Quervain's thyroiditis
B47
• CAH
B51
Behcet’s disease
B57
Abacavir hypersensitivity (B*57:01)
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Shoulder Joint

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Anatomy:

  • Ball & socket joint.
  • Supported by rotator cuff muscles & glenoid labrum.

Rotator Cuff Muscles:

  1. Supraspinatus: In supraspinous fossa.
  1. Infraspinatus: In infraspinous fossa.
  1. Teres minor.
  1. Subscapularis:
      • In subscapular fossa,
      • known as "forgotten tendon" of rotator cuff.
  • Mnemonic:
    • SITS
    • Teres ne minor (Teres minor) aytt Rotate cheyth Sub () akkan 2 spine (supra, infra) venam

Impingement/Painful Arc Syndrome:

Description:

  • Impingement of
    • supraspinatus tendon +/-
    • subacromial bursa
  • in a narrow subacromial space upon abduction.

Evaluation:

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  • Maximum pain between 60°-120° (mid-abduction pain).

Provocative Tests:

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Hawkin's impingement test.

Neer's impingement test.

  • Mnemonic: Hawk (Hawkins) vann thollil irunn, shoulder neeradich (Neers)

Lady between 2 majors

  • Intertubercular groove
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  • Pec major → Adduction and IR + Flexion
  • Latissimus Dorsi → Adduction and IR + Extension
    • Climbing muscle
  • Teres major → Adduction and IR
  • Mneumonic:
    • Lady between 2 majors → LML → Addupichitt Internally (Add + IR) rotate cheyyan nokkum

SIT Muscles

  • Greater tubercle has three prominences
    • provide Insertion to ‘SIT’ muscles
  • Initial abduction (0-15 degrees)
      1. Supraspinatus
  • External rotation
      1. Infraspinatus
      1. Teres minor
  • Function
    • Adduction?? and External Rotation
  • When sitting (SIT muscle except Supraspinatus) in Lap → Addupich (Add) Externally (ER) rotate cheyyanam
SAM Nerves
Muscles Innervated
Action
Suprascapular nerve (C5, C6)
Supraspinatus
Shoulder abduction (0–15°)
Infraspinatus
External rotation of shoulder
Axillary nerve (C5, C6)
Teres minor
External rotation of shoulder
Deltoid
Shoulder abduction (15–90°)
Musculocutaneous nerve
(C5, C6, C7)
Biceps
Elbow flexion,
forearm supination
Brachialis
Elbow flexion
Coracobrachialis (C7)
Adduction

Mneumonic: Kora Kora sound → While adducting Axilla

Winging of scapula

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Feature
Spinal Accessory Nerve (CN XI)
Long Thoracic Nerve
Dorsal Scapular Nerve
Muscle Innervated
Trapezius, Sternocleidomastoid
Serratus anterior
Rhomboids,
Levator scapulae
Mechanism of Injury
Surgery in posterior triangle of neck
Sports injury, mastectomy
Rare;
trauma or stretch injury
Main Deficit
Dropped shoulder,
weak abduction,
weak shrugging of shoulder
Winging scapula, can't lift arm above head
Winging scapula,
esp. on slow lowering
Winging Increases When
Arm abducted at shoulder level
Wall push-up, head tilt
Slow lowering of raised arm

Adduction and IR

  • MLM +
  • Subscapularis
  • ”Mneumonic: Sabu (Subscapularis) nte Wife 2 major (MLM) nte kude kidannu (Add+ IR)

Abduction of the Shoulder Joint

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  • 0–15°: Supraspinatus
  • 15–90°: Middle fibers of deltoid
  • 90–180°:
    • Trapezius, serratus anterior
    • Sar (Serratus anterior) trapped (Trapezius) us and said Hands up (overhead abduction)
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Rotator Cuff Tear:

  • Most Common Tendon Tear:
    • Supraspinatus > Achilles tendon.
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Causes:

  • Degeneration (Most Common):
    • In elderly patients.
  • Trauma:
    • In young patients.

Evaluation

Muscle
Nerve Supply
Action
Test
Supraspinatus
Suprascapular nerve
Abduction
Beer can test,
Empty can test
Jobe’s test
Super Job
Emptying Beer can
Subscapularis
Upper & lower subscapular nerve
Adduction + Internal rotation
Lift off test,
Belly press test,
Bear hug test
Plane Lift off (Lift off)
• Some press belly
(belly press),
• children Hug Bears
(Bear hug)
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Treatment:

  • Avoid painful & overhead activities.
  • Physiotherapy.
  • NSAIDs (Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs).
  • Steroid injections.
  • Arthroscopic tendon repair.

Popeye sign

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  • Rupture of Long Head of Biceps Tendon:
    • Proximal rupture leads to distal migration of muscle belly

Elbow Joint

Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis)

  • (Most Common):
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  • Pathology:
    • Inflammation of the
      • common extensor origin
        • lateral epicondyle

Earliest Affected Muscle:

  • Extensor carpi radialis brevis > longus.
  • Mnemonic: Go in car for tennis and golf

Cozen's test

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  • Extend wrist against resistance,
  • causing pain at lateral condyle.
  • Mnemonic: Make amma cozy

Golfer's Elbow (Medial Epicondylitis):

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  • Pathology:
    • Inflammation of the
      • common flexor origin
      • medial epicondyle
  • Earliest Affected Muscle:
    • Flexor carpi radialis.

Evaluation (Reverse Cozen's test):

  • Flex wrist against resistance,
  • causing pain at medial condyle.

Treatment

  • (Both Tennis and Golfer's Elbow):
    • Activity modification.
    • Counterforce brace:
      • Prevents movement from reaching the muscle origin.
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    • NSAIDs.
    • Physiotherapy.
    • Steroids.
    • Debridement.

Hand & Wrist Joints

De Quervain's Disease:

  • Description:
    • Stenosing tenosynovitis and
    • inflammation of the
      • abductor pollicis longus and
      • extensor pollicis brevis tendons
    • in the 1st dorsal compartment of the wrist.
  • Causes:
    • Overuse,
    • Rheumatoid arthritis.
  • Clinical Profile:
    • Females > males,
    • pain over radial styloid.
  • Mnemonic: DEF → de quervain, Eichhoff, finklestein

Evaluation:

Finkelstein's Test.

Examiner does
Examiner does

Eichhoff's Test.

Patient does
I → Ichoff
Patient does
I → Ichoff

Suppurative tenosynovitis

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  • M/c Staph Aureus
  • Kanavel sign
    • Pain on passive extension
  • Fusiform swelling
  • Resembles sausage
  • Tenderness along sheath
  • Finger held in flexion

Dupuytren's Contracture:

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  • Pathology:
    • abnormal cord-like fibrosis of palmar aponeurosis
    • contracture of finger.
  • Etiology (Most Common):
    • Idiopathic (Most Common).
    • Diabetes mellitus.
    • Alcoholism (Liver failure).
    • Repetitive trauma

Clinical Profile:

  • Males > Females
  • Most Common Involved finger:
    • Ring finger,
  • Most Common Involved joint:
    • Metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint.

Ectopic Types (in other parts of the body):

Peyronie's disease (Penis).

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Ledderhose disease (Soles of Feet).

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Mnemonic: Ladderil (Ledderhose) keri keri kaalil thazhambu vann

Trigger Finger:

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  • Pathophysiology:
    • Trauma → stenosis of A-1 pulley at MCP joint
      • obstruction of flexor tendon passing through it
        • difficulty in opening the finger
        • finger suddenly opens on forceful extension.
  • Etiology (Most Common):
    • Trauma (Most Common).
    • Rheumatoid arthritis.
      • Help diff b/w ring finger and dupyutren
    • Diabetes mellitus.

Clinical Profile:

  • Females > males,
  • Most Common Involved finger:
    • Ring finger,
  • Most Common Involved tendon:
    • Flexor Digitorum Profundus (FDP).

Gamekeeper's Thumb/Skier's Thumb:

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Pathology:

  • Hyperabduction of the thumb
  • tear/avulsion of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL)
    • at the 1st MCP joint.
  • If Adductor pollicis entrapped → Steiner’s lesion ⇒ Surgical Rx
  • Rx: Thumb spica splint
  • Mnemonic: Game keep () cheyyan vangiyapo → Ullinnu collateral (Ulnar collateral) kodukkanam

Bowler's Thumb:

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  • Pathology:
    • Neuroma of the ulnar digital nerve of the thumb
      • due to perineural fibrosis.
  • Mnemonic: Bowl () → Also game → Ullinnu ulla Nerve () povum

Bursitis

Description:

  • Inflammation of bursae due to overuse → swelling, redness, pain.

Types:

  • Housemaid's knee (Prepatellar bursitis).
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  • Clergyman's knee (Infrapatellar bursitis).
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  • Student's elbow
    • Olecranon bursitis
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  • Haglund's/Pump bump deformity
    • Mulholland hump
    • Calcaneal spur
    • Retrocalcaneal bursitis
    • Calcification of bursa forms a bony bump behind the ankle.
    • Mnemonic: Kalnte Bacilund → Haglund, Kalnte backil Mullu kond
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NOTE

Pseudohypoparathyroid/ Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy (AHO)

Short 4th and 5th Metacarpal
in Pseudohypoparathyroid and PseudopseudohypoPTH
Short 4th and 5th Metacarpal
in Pseudohypoparathyroid and PseudopseudohypoPTH
  • Maternal
  • Type 1 A → AD
    • GNAS Mediated
  • Mimic secondary Hyper PTH
  • Mother → Lie to child (pseudo)
  • PTH is high but cannot act
  • (Same Pic as CKD, but Normal ALP)
  • Psudo pseudo
    • knuckle knuckle dimple dimple
  • NOTE: If only short 4th Metacarpal
    • Turner

PseudopseudohypoPTH

  • Paternal
  • AD
  • Everything is normal
  • Father → Lie to child and mother (pseudo pseudo) → but everything will be normal

Madelung

  • Distal radial abn
  • Seen in Turner’s syndrome
  • Radius is not formed
  • Radio carpal coalation doesnt take place
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Williams syndrome
Marfan syndrome
Mutations
Elastin Mutation
Fibrillin Mutation
Leads to
Supravalvular aortic stenosis
Dilatation of aortic root
↳ Rupture → Death
Supravalvular AS
Vitamin D toxicity
William syndrome
Supravalvular PS
Noonan syndrome
Seen in
GNAS
Mccune Albright
Cardiac Myxoma
GNAS 1
• Pseudohypoparathyroid/ Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy
GNAQ
Sturge Weber (Sporadic)

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS)

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