Clinical casebook: osteoarthritis (1.5 CPD hours)
05 June 2014
ARTICLE ONLY
FULL CPD MODULE
This module will update your knowledge on osteoarthritis, including:
- How you can distinguish between pain from the lumbar spine and that caused by arthritis of the hip
- How closely X-ray findings correlate with the clinical picture and to what extent they should guide a decision to refer
- The role of an Oxford hip score in deciding who should be referred for a possible hip replacement
- The usual clinical course in hand OA
- Other diagnoses that might be present with an apparent deterioration of longstanding OA
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