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Theme 4: Spinal pathologies; Weakness (transition to the neurology subunit)

Curriculum Block

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Musculoskeletal Medicine
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Curriculum Block
Part 4 Medical Foundation 4 Musculoskeletal Medicine
Curriculum Week
Part 4
Discipline
Neurology Orthopedics Rheumatology
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Chronic Pain [C23.888.592.612.274] Neurogenic Inflammation [C10.597.609] Inflammation [C23.550.470] Neurologic Manifestations [C10.597] Pain [C10.597.617]

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Child Objectives
  • Differentiate between inflammatory and mechanical back pain.
  • Develop a basic approach to low back pain and explain its common causes and its investigation and management.
  • Differentiate between the role of opioid use in acute pain versus chronic pain and discuss the efficacy, limitations and adverse consequences.
  • Discuss rheumatic disorders, including vascultis and myopathies, that present with overlapping neurological symptoms.
  • Develop an overall approach to weakness, leading into the neuroscience subunit.
  • Differentiate between back pain, spine pain and radicular pain.
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