The Role of the Radial Nerve in Pain and Disability

Some of the characteristics that we know may be indicative of a poor prognosis. This is people that have chronic, who are likely to develop chronic pain or have pain 12 months down the track regardless of treatment. The severe pain is a high risk factor. If they're in that category, then sometimes imaging is indicated because of large tear and we're talking eight millimetres. That's pretty big. But any indications of large intra substance tears is also suggestive of apoor prognosis. High baseline levels of pain and disability. So if they're over that 50 out of 100 on the prete score, that's a big one. And this is where the patient ready to tell us about

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