How To Give A Diagnosis & Prognosis - Answering Those Tricky Patient Questions
The New Grad Physio Podcast
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How Long Does It Take to Diagnose a Super Acute Injury?
When assessing an injury it can be difficult to truly attain exactly what's going on. The initial inflammatory response is often ice-hiced when an injury has just happened and that can warp the assessment. Identifying and putting your finger on the exact structure that's causing that patient's pain, very, very challenging and very, very difficult. It doesn't help when you're in a changing room where everyone and his dog are breathing down your neck whilst you're trying to still assess the player. Every part of you wants to tell them what it is but also want to know how long they've been injured.
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