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Acute Joint Pain - Vitamin CD Mnemonic
Vascular
Infectious
Trauma - Multiple injury sites, Open Fracture, Infectious joint pain
Autoimmune
Acute Joint Pain ... Trauma - Multiple ... joint pain Autoimmune ... Osteoporosis #Acute #JointPain ... #MSK #Orthopedics
Inflammatory Joint Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Monoarticular
 • Gout (Podagra, Tophi)
 • Pseudogout
 • Early
Pain - Differential ... Monoarticular • Gout ... Genitourinary Infection ... #Inflammatory #JointPain ... #MSK #Differential
Approach to Joint Pain - Diagnostic Framework

1) Chronicity
2) Inflammatory vs Non-Inflammatory
3) Number of Joints Involved

1) Chronicity:
Pain - Diagnostic ... , gout or pseudogout ... Noninflammatory • Bloody: Trauma ... neuropathy so trauma ... #Joint #Pain #MSK
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
Pain - Arthritis ... Noninflammatory • Trauma ... Crystal induced (Gout ... Joint #pain #Differential ... #Diagnosis #MSK
Leg Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Bone/Joint Causes of Leg Pain:
 • Fracture
 • Arthritis
 • Gout/pseudogout
• Gout/pseudogout ... • Trauma • ... : • Infection: ... entrapment • Infections ... lower #extremity #msk
CPPD vs Gout

== CPPD == 

Think About CPPD When:
 • Self-limited synovitis after surgery/trauma (> 65
after surgery/trauma ... onset of swelling, pain ... diagnose concomitant infection ... swelling, significant pain ... #Comparison #rheumatology