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Back to basics‼️

A tweetorial on a clinical approach to #joint #pain 🪡
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The 🔠ABCDE approach

🅰️ Articular (or not!) 🦴
🅱️ Background (& burden) 🎒
C Chronology 🕰️
D Distribution 📍
E Extra-articular 🍂

Let’s dive deeper

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#Pain is #inflammatory if worst in the AM/ after rest

#Swelling which is not bony #Synovitis the sine qua non of #inflammatory #arthrits

#Stiffness esp in AM & > 1 hour

“How do you feel when you wake in the morning?”

is a great question to ask

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🅱️ = BACKGROUND

Age 🕰️
Gender ♈️♎️
Race 🧕🏻
#Comorbidities
Pregnancy🤱🏻

And 🅱️ = Burden👩🏻‍🦼
#impact of disease

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#EchoFirst & diastolic dysfunction - what do you know about:
✅hydraulic forces
✅myocardial stiffness
✅damping

Learn more in this talk I recently gave at Echo Australia 2022.

🫀🔊
#BoingBoing

Did you know that #HydraulicForces:
✅are related to the relative size of the LA in relation to the LV?
✅contribute to left ventricular diastolic function?
✅associate independently with survival?
Myocardial #stiffness and #damping are mechanistic ⚙️properties of the LV that can be estimated by measuring the Doppler 🔊 E wave peak velocity, acceleration time ⏲️, and deceleration time ⏲️.

More in this separate thread:

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1) How I cured my #LongCovid in 3mos after suffering for almost a year. This was my last hope. I researched what #Covid does to the body, came up with a list of "clinically studied" supplements and...
2) took them all. Firstly, I am not a MD. In March 2021 I caught Covid while working as a #frontline #healthcare worker. My symptoms of #brainfog, #fatigue, #jointpain, #muscleweakness, morning #stiffness happened after my recovery. At the time, this #postcovid #syndrome was...
3) was just starting to be discussed online. The the term #Longhauler was coined. Those in the #ME, #CFS, #Lyme #MCAS #community starting speaking out about the similarity of #symptoms with #LC. #Covidclinics started to sprout up, include one at the....
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