Your first patient has a musculoskeletal complaint. Using the chart of musculoskeletal medical word elements from your textbook, construct 10 medical terms that would reasonably be involved in a complaint dealing with the muscles and/or bones. Each term should include its meaning in parentheses. Then list 3 tests or procedures that would reasonably be involved in evaluating a patient like this.

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Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are injuries or disorders of the muscles, nerves, tendons, joints, cartilage, and spinal discs.

10 medical terms that would reasonably be involved in a complaint dealing with the muscles and/or bones

  1. Oste/o (Bone,Osteitis, osteoma, osteocyte)
  2. Chondr/o (Cartilage Chondritis, chondroma, chondrocyte)
  3. Arthr/o Joint (Arthritis, arthroplasty)
  4. Myel/o (Bone marrow Myeloma)
  5. Ten/o, tendin/o Tendon (binds muscle to bone) Tendonitis, tenorrhaphy)
  6. Ligament/o Ligament (binds bone to bone) Ligamentous injury)
  7. Burs/o Bursa, “bag”, (shock absorber between tendons and bones) Bursitis
  8. My/o, myos/o Muscle (Myoma, myositis)
  9. malacia Softening (Osteomalacia, chondromalacia)
  10. porosis, Porous (Osteoporosis)

What are 3 important processes when coming to a diagnosis?

  1. Physical examination
  2. generating a provisional and differential diagnosis
  3. testing (ordering, reviewing, and acting on test results) reaching a final diagnosis.

With this information, we can conclude that Musculoskeletal Disorders or MSDs are injuries and disorders that affect the human body's movement or musculoskeletal system

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