Gavin Clunie

This is a handbook of clinical rheumatology that provides practical guidelines to management and diagnosis. It is essential for all specialist registrars and SHO's but will also be of great relevance to general practitioners.

"When evaluating a person-child or adult-with focal or widespread pain, it is important to consider that the pain may be derived from joints. Sometimes it won't be obvious. MSK pain may arise from joints (disease of synovium, cartilage, or bone) but also entheses, tendons, muscles, or a combination of structures, or can be referred from site to site (usually from proximal to distal), or can be associated with/secondary to neurogenic lesions. Patterns...