Template:Neck pain red flags

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Red Flags
  • Significant trauma (eg. fall in osteoporotic patient, motor vehicle accident)
  • Infective: (eg. fever, meningism, immunosuppression, intravenous drug use, exotic exposure, recent overseas travel)
  • Constitutional: (eg. fevers, weight loss, anorexia, past or current history of malignancy)
  • Iatrogenic: Recent surgery, catheterisation, venipuncture, manipulation
  • Neurological: Symptoms/signs especially of upper motor neuron pathology, vomiting
  • Genitourinary/Reproductive: UTI, haematuria, retention, uterine, breast
  • Endocrine: Corticosteroids, diabetes, hyperparathyroid
  • Gastrointestinal: Dysphagia
  • Integumentary: Infections, rashes
  • Cardiorespiratory: Cough, haemoptysis, chest pain, shortness of breath, diaphoresis, ripping/tearing sensation (dissection), CVD risk factors, anticoagulants
  • Rheumatological: History of rheumatoid arthritis (atlanto-axial disruption)
  • Awkward posture (atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation in children)
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