Study Guide – Orthopaedics + Rheumatology

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Module 1	Ortho/Rheum in the AFPs
Unit 1	Septic arthritis in children
Unit 2	Heel pain: a practical approach
Unit 3	Exercise in pregnancy
Unit 4	Predicting recovery from whiplash injury
Unit 5	Hip pain in young adults
Unit 6	Sports-related concussion (2014)
Unit 7	Case - Wrist Osteolysis
Unit 8	Tendon injuries
Unit 9	Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
Unit 10	Case - spinal osteomyelitis
Unit 11	Clubfoot
Unit 12	Meniscal tears
Unit 13	Shoulder injuries
Unit 14	Cervical spine Assessment following trauma
Unit 15	Hands, fingers, thumbs - Common injuries
Unit 16	Initial assessment of the injured shoulder
Unit 17	The Ottawa knee rules
Unit 18	Bennett fracture dislocation
Unit 19	Mallet finger
Unit 20	Skier’s thumb
Unit 21	Musculoskeletal pain – presentations to general practice
Unit 22	Charcot osteoarthropathy of the foot
Unit 23	Slipped upper femoral epiphysis in children
Unit 24	Sports related concussion Management in general practice ( 2010)
Unit 25	Sports ankle injuries Assessment and management
Unit 26	Shin pain in athletes Assessment and management
Unit 27	Sports knee injuries Assessment and management
Unit 28	Persistent foot pain
Unit 29	Tendon injuries
Unit 30	Osteomyelitis
Unit 31	Upper cervical spine injuries
Unit 32	Plantar fasciitis
Unit 33	The challenge of managing mid-foot pain
Unit 34	Evaluation of digital clubbing
Unit 35	Case - Septic Sternoclavicular joint
Unit 36	Polymyalgia rheumatica
Unit 37	Hip pain in young adults
Unit 38	Rheumatoid arthritis
Unit 39	Osteoarthritis
Unit 40	Viral arthritis
Unit 41	Neck pain
Unit 42	Ankylosing spondylitis
Unit 43	Systemic lupus erythmatosus
Unit 44	Case Distal Radial Osteolytic lesion
Unit 45	Returning to work
Unit 46	Chronic fatigue syndrome
Unit 47	Case -dermatomyositis - Rash + weakness
Unit 48	Osteoporosis
Unit 49	Paget disease of bone
Unit 50	Osteoporosis prevention and detection
Unit 51	Osteoporosis pharmacological prevention and management
Unit 52	Fibromyalgia
Unit 53	Polymyalgia rheumatica
Unit 54	Whiplash patients
Unit 55	Osteoarthritis
Unit 56	Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Unit 57	Living with rheumatoid arthritis
Unit 58	Case - Osteoporosis
Unit 59	Case - flexor tenosynovitis
Unit 60	Carpal tunnel and workplaces
Unit 61	Tendon injuries
Unit 62	Case - benign acute childhood myositis (BACM).[AJGP]
Unit 63	A GP primer on incisional hernia [AJGP]
Unit 64	developmental dysplasia of the hip [AJGP]
Unit 65	Low back pain: Can we mitigate the inadvertent psycho-behavioural harms of spinal imaging? [AJGP]
Unit 66	A general practitioner primer on groin hernias [AJGP]
Unit 67	Neck pain: What if it is not musculoskeletal? [AJGP]
Unit 68	Temporomandibular dysfunction [AJGP]
Unit 69	Osteosarcopenia: A new geriatric syndrome [AJGP]
Unit 70	Rheumatology and the adolescent patient [AJGP]
Unit 71	Lisfranc injuries [AJGP]
Module 2	Ortho/Rheum in HTT
Unit 1	Non-arthritic hip pain in adults
Unit 2	Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis
Unit 3	Soft tissue injuries of the knee
Unit 4	Psoriatic arthritis
Unit 5	Foot pain
Unit 6	Paediatric hip and knee pain
Unit 7	Ankle pain
Unit 8	Doping in sport
Unit 9	Ankylosing spondylitis/ spondyloarthritis
Unit 10	Osteoarthritis of the hip
Unit 11	Assessment of a red, hot and swollen knee
Unit 12	Osteoarthritis of the knee
Unit 13	Special issues in female athletes
Unit 14	Hernias of the abdominal wall
Unit 15	What’s new in foot and ankle surgery?
Unit 16	New agents in rheumatology - biologics and small molecules
Module 3	Ortho/Rheum in the Checks
Unit 1	553.1 – Plantar Fasciitis
Unit 2	553.2 – Knee Osteoarthritis
Unit 3	553.3 - Osteoporosis
Unit 4	553.4 – Chronic Pain
Unit 5	531.1 – Hip Pain in 19yo – CAM impingement
Unit 6	531.2 – Heel Pain – Severs Disease
Unit 7	531.3 – Exercise-Induced Asthma
Unit 8	531.4 – Foot Pain – Navicular stress fracture
Unit 9	531.5 – Recurrent hamstring tear