Case Studies 1 and 2: You Are the Physio
Two teaching cases — widespread pain with raised inflammatory markers, and chronic backache with an excessive exercise pattern.
Source: physio4gps
Document type: teaching case studies
Review status: unreviewed
Original file: Pain Management - Case studies 1&2 (you are the physio) (1)(1).pdf
You are the physio....
Case Study 2
Patient with chronic backache
Patient exercises excessively in the gym 6
days a week
MRI shows a few disc bulges
Patient has history of anorexia and was
adopted
Patient finds it hard to sit and ‘be’ always
needs to be ‘busy’
Physio - What would you do?
You are the physio....
Case Study 1
Patient with aches and pains all over/Multiple
joints - back, neck, knees and hips
Overweight, comfort eats, gets bored easily
and loses motivation when starts something,
underachieves at work
As a youngster anything she tried wasn't good
enough according to her parents
Bld tests slightly high with inflammation,
rheumatology and GP have ruled out
anything medical, sends patient to physio
Physio - What would you do?
About this document. This page reproduces a source document from the physio4gps group pain-management programme. It is transcribed from the file supplied by the programme: page and slide markers have been removed and multi-column sections reflowed, so reading order in some sections may differ from the original layout. Where text was illegible or clipped in the source this is stated in place. Identifying details are left as in the original. This is reference material, not clinical advice, and it has not been clinically reviewed.