Musculoskeletal curriculum
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The musculoskeletal curriculum is one of our curriculum articles and aims to be a collection of articles that represent the core of musculoskeletal knowledge.
Definition
Topics pertaining to bones, joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments, but excluding the skeletal structures of the head.
Anatomy
Core anatomical topics include:
Upper limb
- bones and muscles: rotator cuff
- joints:
- regions and spaces: carpal tunnel
Lower limb and pelvis
Spine and chest wall
Radiological examinations
Plain radiography is the baseline imaging modality in most musculoskeletal problems. Other common musculoskeletal imaging modalities and imaging-guided procedures include:
- CT
- ultrasound: rotator cuff ultrasound
- MRI
- arthrography
Pathology
Trauma
Upper limb
- shoulder injury
- arm injury
- wrist injury
- hand injury
Lower limb
- pelvic and hip injury
- knee injury
- ankle injury
- foot injury
Spine
Bone tumours
There are a bewildering number of bone tumours. Below are listed those considered important either because they are common, or because they are important or because they have specific imaging findings. For a more complete list, please refer to: bone tumours.
- bone-forming tumours
- cartilage-forming tumours
- fibrous bone lesions
- bone marrow tumours
- bony metastases
- other bone tumours or tumour-like lesions:
Soft tissue tumours
- malignant fibrous histiocytoma
- liposarcoma
- synovial cell sarcoma
- rhabdomyosarcoma
- pigmented villonodular synovitis
- lipoma arborescens
Arthritides
- general
- degenerative
- inflammatory
- metabolic and endocrine
Infections
- septic arthritis
-
osteomyelitis
- pyogenic
- tuberculous
- fungal
- syphilitic
Congenital and developmental
- upper limb
- lower limb
- spine and chest wall
- general
Sports medicine
Sports medicine encompasses more than just musculoskeletal disease but in radiology, this is the main interaction with this speciality. The following topics concentrate on overuse injuries but bearing in mind that sports medicine encompasses some of the above topics but especially trauma. It should also be noted that many of these conditions can occur outside the sports medicine setting.
Upper limb
- shoulder girdle
- tendinopathy - biceps brachii long head, rotator cuff
- calcific tendinitis
- glenoid labral tear
- adhesive capsulitis
- pectoralis major tear
- osteolysis of the distal clavicle
- quadrilateral space syndrome
- stress fracture/reaction of the proximal humerus
- elbow
- overhead sport injury
- epicondylitis
- tendinopathy - distal biceps, distal triceps
- bursitis - olecranon
- wrist and hand
- intersection syndrome
- de Quervain tenosynovitis
- extensor carpi ulnarnis tendinopathy
- finger pulley injuries
- triangular fibrocartilage complex tear
Thorax
Pelvis and lower limb
- pelvis and hip
- bursitis - trochanteric, ischial, iliopsoas
- tendinopathy - gluteus minimus/medius, tensor fascia lata
- piriformis syndrome
- sciatic nerve compression
- hip labral injury
- femoro-acetebular impingement
- anterior hip impingement
- transient osteoporosis of the hip
- adductor injury
- iliopsoas injury
- sportsman's hernia
- osteitis pubis
- snapping hip
- stress fracture - femoral neck, pubic rami
- thigh
- hamstring injury
- quadriceps injury
- meralgia parasthetica
- knee
- ligament tear - anterior cruciate, posterior cruciate, medial collateral, lateral collateral
- posterolateral corner injury
- posteromedial corner injury
- meniscal tear
- patellar maltracking
- patellar dislocation
- osteochondritis dissecans
- chondromalacia patellae
- tendinopathy - quadriceps, patellar, popliteus
- medial plica syndrome
- iliotibial band friction syndrome
- bursitis - pas anserinus, prepatellar, suprapatellar
- leg
- medial tibial stress syndrome
- stress fracture - tibia and fibula
- gastrocnemius/soleus strain
- popliteal artery entrapment
- ankle
- ligament injury - lateral collateral, medial collateral, syndesmosis
- ankle impingement - anterior, posterior
- Achilles tendon rupture
- tendinopathy - Achilles, tibialis posterior, flexor hallucis longus, peroneal
- bursitis - calcaneal, adventitial
- stress fracture - calcaneal, distal fibular, medial malleolar, talar
- sinus tarsi syndrome
- foot
- stress fracture - navicular, cuboid, cuneiform, metatarsal, sesamoid
- accessory navicular syndrome
- plantar fasciitis
- cuboid syndrome
- sesamoiditis
- Haglund syndrome
-<li>osteitis pubis</li>-<li>snapping hip</li>- +<li><a title="Osteitis pubis" href="/articles/osteitis-pubis">osteitis pubis</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Snapping hip syndrome" href="/articles/snapping-hip-syndrome">snapping hip</a></li>
-<li>posterolateral corner injury</li>-<li>posteromedial corner injury</li>-<li>meniscal tear</li>-<li>patellar maltracking</li>-<li>patellar dislocation</li>-<li>osteochondritis dissecans</li>-<li>chondromalacia patellae</li>- +<li><a title="Posterolateral corner injury of the knee" href="/articles/posterolateral-corner-injury-of-the-knee">posterolateral corner injury</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Posteromedial corner injury of the knee" href="/articles/posteromedial-corner-injury-of-the-knee">posteromedial corner injury</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Meniscal tear" href="/articles/meniscal-tear">meniscal tear</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Patellar maltracking" href="/articles/patellofemoral-instability">patellar maltracking</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Lateral patellar dislocation" href="/articles/lateral-patellar-dislocation">patellar dislocation</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Osteochondritis dissecans of the knee" href="/articles/osteochondritis-dissecans-of-the-knee">osteochondritis dissecans</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Chondromalacia patellae" href="/articles/chondromalacia-patellae">chondromalacia patellae</a></li>
-<li>medial plica syndrome</li>-<li>iliotibial band friction syndrome</li>- +<li><a title="Medial plica syndrome" href="/articles/medial-patellar-plica-syndrome">medial plica syndrome</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Iliotibial Band Friction Syndrome" href="/articles/iliotibial-band-syndrome">iliotibial band friction syndrome</a></li>
-<li>medial tibial stress syndrome</li>- +<li><a title="Medial tibial stress syndrome" href="/articles/medial-tibial-stress-syndrome-1">medial tibial stress syndrome</a></li>
-<li>popliteal artery entrapment</li>- +<li><a title="Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome" href="/articles/popliteal-artery-entrapment-syndrome">popliteal artery entrapment</a></li>
-<li>Achilles tendon rupture</li>- +<li><a title="Achilles tendon rupture" href="/articles/achilles-tendon-tear">Achilles tendon rupture</a></li>
-<li>sinus tarsi syndrome</li>- +<li><a title="Sinus tarsi syndrome" href="/articles/sinus-tarsi-syndrome">sinus tarsi syndrome</a></li>
-<li>accessory navicular syndrome</li>-<li>plantar fasciitis</li>- +<li><a title="Accessory navicular syndrome" href="/articles/accessory-navicular-syndrome">accessory navicular syndrome</a></li>
- +<li><a title="plantar fasciitis" href="/articles/plantar-fasciitis">plantar fasciitis</a></li>
-<li>sesamoiditis</li>-<li>Haglund syndrome</li>- +<li><a title="Sesamoiditis" href="/articles/sesamoiditis">sesamoiditis</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Haglund syndrome" href="/articles/haglund-syndrome">Haglund syndrome</a></li>
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