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)
