GENERAL ADVICE – JANUARY 2019 DOES A SECOND JOINT SUFFER BY FAVOURING A FIRST JOINT? I regularly see patients who have an injured hip, knee, elbow or shoulder who subsequently complain of an injury involving the contralateral joint (the same … Read More
CASE VIGNETTE – JANUARY 2019 PRE-EXISTENT ABNORMALITIES CAN BE MADE WORSE A 25 year old male cyclist was dislodged from his bike whilst riding out towards the Brisbane Airport. He landed awkwardly and sustained a dislocation of his right patella. … Read More
LEAD ARTICLE – JANUARY 2019 SAME WORDS BUT VERY DIFFERENT CONNOTATIONS I recently saw a middle-aged male patient who had fallen from a height of some 900mm (about 3’) from the bottom step of a dump truck at a coal … Read More