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  #1

can anyone throw light on these?
1). do we need to do drawers & mcmurray's test on every knee pain case or only those with positive h/o trauma?
2). shd we do only the range of motion for this case besides inspection and palpation?
3). shd we examine both hip and ankle jt or only ankle jt will do in knee pain case?

  #2

What I would say... is that you should do a complete LE PE. With everything...

My feeling is that the c/c is only to trigger the system PE.

I don't know what the guys here think... that is what i would do.

  #3

thanx for the reply , was wondering ifanyone would reply or not.
so does that mean u would do the drawer test and mcmurray test as well?

  #4

Well for some reason the forum is pretty quite lately... don't know why. I made a question in another thread that still remains uncommented.

I would do everything, I would show them I know the drawer and mcmurray... the problem is that you know you should examine the knee but YOU DONT know what they actually have in their check lists... so... better be on a safe side.

  #5

yes do those tests...coz there is nothing else to do in knee pain..stop and apologize if its painful.

ask about other joints...including finger joints..look for rashes, other




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  #6

thanx folks (werther and drgeorgie), thanx for ur replies. will be doing as u suggest. i guess its better to be on safe side.nod







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