Ep. 048 | Joint Efforts: Navigating Rheumatism | Jack March
Physiotutors Podcast
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X-Raying for Axial Spondyloarthritis for Women Is Not a Good Idea
In your webinar, you mentioned that women often have spondyloarthritis without any non-radiographic spondylaarthritis. So do you think that that's one reason why the diagnosis for room is made so late, especially in women? Yeah, definitely. And x-rays are obviously, x- rays are very easy to obtain and they're very cheap. But unfortunately, as you mentioned, there are multiple problems with that. X-raying for axial spondylearthritis for women is pointless. Very few of them will develop structural changes in the sacrially at joint and the lumbar spine. If they do, it tends
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