Injury: case study

Turn in: 1)copy of case study w/out name on it and no diagnosis/treatment2)copy of case study with name on it & proper treatment
Diagnosis: you will be given a case study and will hand in: 1) diagnosis 2)how/why you arrived at it(if xrays/MRI explain what you're looking at 3)proper treatment (what would you tell the patient)
Create a case study on an injury:
•Choose an injury and create a description of some symptoms and if applicable (highly encouraged), a copy(ies) of an x-ray/MRI image.
•Use appropriate & vocabulary
•The case studies will be distributed to classmates where they will “solve” the case and write up an explanation to the patient what the injury is and what they should do about it (treatment including rehab.)
Case Study Example (x-rays,diagrams excluded,make yours similar):
1)A 42 year old female postal worker has been referred to the occupational medicine clinic for evaluation. She says that for the past five months she has had intermittent bilateral hand and wrist pain (right greater than left), associated with right hand weakness. She also reports numbness and tingling in bilateral fifth digits intermittent over the past two months, and mild right elbow pain. For the past eight years, the patient has worked full time as a Letter Sorting Machine (LSM) operator for the U.S. Postal Service.
-LSM keying requires repetitious flexion and extension of digits, hands, and wrists, at a fixed speed. A 60 speed refers to keying in the zip codes for 60 letters in one minute, one letter per second. Employees key for 30 minutes at a time, preceded by 15 minutes to load the LSM ("feeding") and followed by 15 minutes to remove letters from the machine ("sweeping").
-The work environment is dusty. It is noisy when all machines are running, especially on the night shift which has the heaviest mail volume. The patient complains of some cross-cultural conflicts with her supervisor, and fears harassment if she goes on limited duty. She has no hobbies or other non-work activities that involve repetitive motion.