A Clinician's Guide to Lower Extremity Differential Diagnosis, Pathologies and Special Tests

Course overview

Name some reasons that it is important for a clinician to have a good understanding of differential diagnosis...ANNND GO!! 1. Direct Access 2. Early detection of conditions that mimic musculoskeletal conditions 3. Patients are discharged "quicker and sicker" from acute care 4. Patients may disclose information to their therapist which might have been unknown to the physician...AND many more! Let Dr. Rina Pandya help you feel more confident in your differential diagnosis skills. This is course 2. Course one is A Clinician's Guide to Differential Diagnosis. Course three is A Clinician's Guide to Differential Diagnosis of the Neck and Shoulder. In this course, Dr. Pandya will cover how: -To understand how to perform differential diagnoses of lower extremity pain for neuromusculoskeletal/systemic origins -To identify commonly used special tests of the hip, knee, ankle and foot -To improve clinical outcomes of the lower extremity diagnosis of hip, knee, ankle and foot -To identify referred pain patterns from non-musculoskeletal/systemic origins