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

1. Migraine headache   upper cervical zygapophyseal joint hypomobility
2. Rotator cuff tendinopathy   GH instability in younger athlete and AC joint OA in older athlete
3. Tennis elbow   Cervical disk abnormality
4. Wrist tendinitis   cervical abnormality
5. Persistent hamstring strain   Abnormal neural tension
6. Patellofemoral pain   Referred pain from  hip
7. Osgood schlatter lesion   osteoid osteoma tibial tuberosity
8. Shin splints   stress fracture
9. Plantar fasciitis   medial plantar nerve entrapment
10. 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.