What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription
Section 25 — Joints
James Tyler Kent · What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription · 17 passages
Locate the joint affected and the side the joint is on.
For pain see Section 6.
Describe any sensation or feeling as in Section 4.
Any cracking on movement ?
Has it been out of place or dislocated ?
Any eruption or sore about it ? (section 32).
Is it inflamed, hot, swollen, sore, painful ?
Does it move easily ?
Is it stiff or is there no motion ?
Does the inability to rnove come from pain, or from what cause ?
Is it numb ?
Have you rheumatism now, or have you had it ?
Has it ever been sprained ?
Is it weak ?
Have you corns or bunions ?
Locate and describe as to pain and other particulars.
Any trouble n walking ?