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SGEM#191: No Time for Physio – Roll With It

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Steve is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Western University working at the Fowler Clinic and the Roth McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre. Case: A 43-year-old male presents to your local rural emergency department Monday morning after rolling his ankle during his usual weekend pickup basketball game.

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How Common Is Recurrent Radial Head Subluxation?

Pediatric Education

The grandmother who had been taking care of the child brought the child to clinic. The parent provided history by phone and noted that the boy had had radial head subluxation of the same elbow about 10 months previously and it had been reduced in the urgent care setting. J Emerg Med. Learning Point RHS can commonly recur.

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Running Injuries

Northwestern EM Blog

climbing stairs) Diagnosis: Anterior patella tenderness; pain with patellar grind test , deep knee flexion EM differential: meniscus injury, stress fracture, ligamentous injury Initial treatment: home exercise program or formal physical therapy to strengthen quadriceps, core, and hip abductors.