OCS Field Guide: A PT Podcast - Calcific Tendonitis and Parsonage-Turner Syndrome

Calcific Tendonitis and Parsonage-Turner Syndrome

01/05/22 • 14 min

There are a few uncommon shoulder conditions that might mimic more typical orthopedic conditions and could trip you up on the exam. Even though you may not see very many of these patients in the clinic, we would expect them to show up on the OCS. Today we cover calcific tendonitis and Parsonage-Turner Syndrome and how to distinguish them from more common conditions and from each other.
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OCS Field Guide: A PT Podcast - Calcific Tendonitis and Parsonage-Turner Syndrome

Transcript

Hello and welcome back. This week, we’re continuing our shoulder series, and I want to start with a practice question.

A 44-year-old male presents to an outpatient clinic with a referral for treatment of R shoulder pain from his primary care physician. He reports that 3 weeks ago he woke up in the night with severe burning pain in the top and back of his R shoulder and into his R upper arm. Since then, the pain has slowly decreased, but he is now having trouble using his R arm for his