Rheumatology
Monoarthritis
| 1. Septic arthritis 2. Tubercular arthritis 3. Hemarthrosis 4. Gout 5. Pseudogout 6. Reactive arthritis 7. Psoriatic arthritis | 8. Enteropathic arthritis 9. Spondyloarthritis 10. Gonococcal 11. Osteomyelitis 12. RA 13. JIA 14. FB, trauma 15. Leukaemia |
Polyarthritis
| 1. Viral polyarthritis 2. Osteoarthritis 3. RA 4. Ankylosing spondyloarthritis 5. Axial SpA 6. Psoriatic arthritis | 7. Enteropathic arthritis 8. SLE 9. JIA 10. Chronic gout 11. Pseudogout 12. Chronic sarcoidosis |
Low Back Pain
| Inflammatory | Non-inflammatory |
| 1. AS 2. Psoriatic 3. IBD 4. associated 5. Reactive 6. RA | 1. Mechanical 2. PLID 3. Osteoporosis & vertebral # 4. multiple myeloma 5. Paget’s disease 6. Bony metastasis(PUBLIKT) (breast, lung, prostate, kidney, liver intestine, thyroid) |
Neck pain
- Mechanical – whiplash injury, cervical spondylosis
- Inflammatory- RA, PMR, AxSPa, psoriatic arthritis, discitis
- Others- neoplastic, metastatic, myeloma, lymphoma, fibromyalgia, angina, referred pain.
Proximal muscle pain or weakness
| Inflammatory | 1. Dermatomyositis 2. Polymyositis 3. IBM 4. Sarcoid 5. Myasthenia gravis 6. Autoimmune CTD- SLE, MCTD |
| Endocrine | 7. Hypothyroid 8. Hyperthyroid 9. Hyperparathyroid 10. Addison’s disease 11. Cushing’s syndrome |
| Metabolic | 12. Myophosphorylase deficiency 13. Phosphofructokinase deficiency 14. Carnitine deficiency 15. Hypokalemia 16. Hypercalcemia 17. Osteomalacia |
| Genetic | 18. Muscular dystrophies- DMD, BMD, FSHD, LGMD |
| Drugs | Alcohol opiate Steroid beta blockers Statin chloroquine Fibrates ciclosporin Zidovudine |
| Toxin | 19. OPC 20. Snake venom 21. Amphetamine, cocaine, heroin |
| Paraneoplastic | 22. Carcinomatous neuromyopathy |
| Infections | 23. Viral- HIV, EBV, CMV 24. Bacterial- TB, staph, mycoplasma 25. Parasite- cysticercosis, schistosomiasis |
