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"Marble Eyelids" in Scleroderma - Eyelid Stiffness on Physical Exam

Eversion of the lower eyelid is made
Scleroderma - Eyelid Stiffness ... #Scleroderma #Stiffness
Brudzinski's Sign in Meningitis

Severe neck stiffness causes the patient's knees and hips to flex when the
Severe neck stiffness
Brudzinski's Sign in Meningitis

Severe neck stiffness causes the patient's knees and hips to flex when the
Severe neck stiffness
Distinguishing between Inflammatory and Degenerative joint disease
Inflammatory Joint Disease
 • Swelling stimulates joint nociceptors -> Pain
membrane -> Morning stiffness ... lymphatics -> Stiffness ... inactivity -> Joint stiffness ... within minute -> Stiffness
Screening and surveillance of varices in patients with cirrhosis. 

- No for screening need if platelets
platelets >150 Liver stiffness
Diagnostic Testing for Meningitis
History:
 • Triad: Fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status
 • Sens: 44%
Triad: Fever, neck stiffness ... Rigidity • Neck stiffness
Myositis and Myopathies
#ESR #CK #Differential diagnosis of myopathy 
#Inflammatory #myopathies	#Dermatomyositis	
#muscle weakness
#Polymyositis	
#Inclusion body myositis
#Polymyalgia rheumatica	
#Fibromyalgia	
#Hypothyroid myopathy	
#Muscle stiffness
#Drug-induced
myopathy #Muscle stiffness
Stages of Migraine
 • Prodromal or Premonitory Phase (1-2 days): Fatigue, Yawning, Food cravings, Pallor, Nausea,
concentrating, Neck stiffness ... light/noise, Neck stiffness
Complications of Measles: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
 • ADEM -> Fever, headache, neck stiffness, BBD, mental
headache, neck stiffness
Approach to Joint Pain

History:
Is the pain from:
	• Joint
	• Adjacent bursa
	• Tendon
	• Ligament
	• Bone
	• Muscle
	• Referred from
: • Pain • Stiffness ... with motion - Stiffness ... with rest - Stiffness