[613] | 1 | DVBCWB3 ;ALB/RLC BONES WKS TEXT - 1 ; 12 FEB 2007
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| 2 | ;;2.7;AMIE;**121**;Apr 10, 1995;Build 9
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| 3 | ;
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| 4 | ;
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| 5 | TXT ;
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| 6 | ;;A. Review of Medical Records:
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| 7 | ;;
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| 8 | ;;B. Medical History (Subjective Complaints):
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| 9 | ;;
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| 10 | ;; Comment on:
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| 11 | ;;
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| 12 | ;; 1. Describe details of any injury.
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| 13 | ;; 2. For episodes of osteomyelitis, location, frequency. Is there current
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| 14 | ;; active infection? If not, when was the last active infection?
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| 15 | ;; 3. History of hospitalizations or surgery, reason or type of surgery,
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| 16 | ;; location and dates, if known.
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| 17 | ;; 4. Symptoms of pain, weakness, stiffness, swelling, heat, redness,
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| 18 | ;; drainage, instability or giving way, "locking," abnormal motion, etc.
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| 19 | ;; 5. Hand dominance and how determined.
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| 20 | ;; 6. Treatment: medication type, dose, frequency, response, and
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| 21 | ;; side effects; other treatment.
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| 22 | ;; 7. If there are periods of flare-up of bone disease:
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| 23 | ;;
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| 24 | ;; a. State their severity, frequency, and duration.
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| 25 | ;; b. Name the precipitating and alleviating factors.
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| 26 | ;; c. Estimate to what extent, if any, they affect functional
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| 27 | ;; impairment during the flare-up.
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| 28 | ;;
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| 29 | ;; 8. Describe whether crutches, brace, cane, corrective shoes, etc.,
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| 30 | ;; are needed.
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| 31 | ;; 9. Are there constitutional symptoms of bone disease?
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| 32 | ;; 10. Describe the effects of the condition on the veteran's usual
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| 33 | ;; occupation and daily activities.
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| 34 | ;; 11. History of neoplasm.
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| 35 | ;;
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| 36 | ;; a. Date of diagnosis, diagnosis.
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| 37 | ;; b. Benign or malignant.
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| 38 | ;; c. Type of treatment, dates.
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| 39 | ;; d. Last date of treatment.
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| 40 | ;;
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| 41 | ;;C. Physical Examination (Objective Findings):
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| 42 | ;;
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| 43 | ;; Address each of the following as appropriate to the disability
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| 44 | ;; being examined and fully describe current findings:
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| 45 | ;;
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| 46 | ;; 1. Describe objective evidence of deformity, angulation, false
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| 47 | ;; motion, shortening, intra articular involvement, etc.
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| 48 | ;; 2. Malunion, nonunion, any loose motion, false joint.
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| 49 | ;; 3. Tenderness, drainage, edema, painful motion, weakness, redness, heat.
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| 50 | ;; 4. For weight bearing joints (hip, knee, ankle), describe gait
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| 51 | ;; and functional limitations on standing and walking. Describe
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| 52 | ;; any callosities, breakdown, or unusual shoe wear pattern that
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| 53 | ;; would indicate abnormal weight bearing.
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| 54 | ;; 5. If ankylosis is present, describe the position of the bones
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| 55 | ;; of the joint in relationship to one another (in degrees of
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| 56 | ;; flexion, external rotation, etc.), and state whether the
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| 57 | ;; ankylosis is stable and pain free.
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| 58 | ;; 6. With joint involvement, A DETAILED ASSESSMENT OF EACH AFFECTED
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| 59 | ;; JOINT IS REQUIRED. Follow JOINTS worksheet.
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| 60 | ;; 7. If shortening of the leg may be present, measure the leg
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| 61 | ;; length from the anterior superior iliac spine to the medial
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| 62 | ;; malleolus.
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| 63 | ;; 8. Are there constitutional signs of bone disease - anemia,
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| 64 | ;; weight loss, fever, debility, amyloid liver, etc.?
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| 65 | ;; 9. For genu recurvatum, acquired, traumatic: Is there weakness and
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| 66 | ;; insecurity on weight-bearing?
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| 67 | ;; 10. For malunion of os calcis or astralgus - degree of deformity (mild,
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| 68 | ;; moderate, marked).
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| 69 | ;;
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| 70 | ;;D. Diagnostic and Clinical Tests:
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| 71 | ;;
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| 72 | ;; 1. As indicated: X-rays, including special views or weight
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| 73 | ;; bearing films, MRI, arthrogram, diagnostic arthroscopy.
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| 74 | ;; NOTE: The diagnosis of degenerative arthritis or post-traumatic
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| 75 | ;; arthritis of a joint requires X-ray confirmation. Once the
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| 76 | ;; diagnosis has been confirmed in a joint, further X-rays of that
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| 77 | ;; joint are not required.
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| 78 | ;; 2. For osteomyelitis, state whether there is an involucrum,
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| 79 | ;; sequestrum, or draining sinus.
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| 80 | ;; 3. Include results of all diagnostic and clinical tests
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| 81 | ;; conducted in the examination report.
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| 82 | ;;
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| 83 | ;;E. Diagnosis:
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| 84 | ;;
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| 85 | ;;
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| 86 | ;;
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| 87 | ;;Signature: Date:
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| 88 | ;;END
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