1. Orthopaedic examination
Medical history
personal details
main complaints (pain, stiffness, swelling, deformity, weakness, instability, changing in sensibility, loss of function))
former course of treatment
family and development history,
concomitant diseases,
social background

2. Orthopaedic examination
General physical examination
Evaluate condition and efficiency of internal organs in the context of indication and contraindication to surgical treatment of locomotor system.
Orthopaedic examinantion
general
sectional
local

3. Orthopaedic examination
general orthopaedic examinantion
static status
type of body
nourishing
proportion
symetry
dynamic status
gait evaluation

4. sectional orthopaedic examinantion
Limbs’ relative lengths
Limbs’ absolute lengths
Limbs’ circuits

6. Orthopaedic examination
local orthopaedic examinantion (head, spine, upper and lower limb)
static status
skin evaluation
joints’ contours or region contours evaluation
evaluation of each joints’ position
dynamic status
range of motion in each joints
muscular strength

7. Joint and region contours

9. Thomas Test

12. The Medical Research Council Scale of muscle power
Grade 0 No movement.
Grade 1 Only a flicker of movement.
Grade 2 Movement with gravity eliminated.
Grade 3 Movement against gravity.
Grade 4 Movement against resistance.
Grade 5 Normal power.

13. Additional investigations in orthopaedics
Laboratory
Hematology, biochemical test
microbiologic
Image examination
radiological
ultrasonographic CT
MRI
Histopatologic

24. Treatment methods used in orthopaedics
Conservative treatment
redresions
plaster immobilisation
traction
Surgical treatment
fracture osteosynthesis
osteotomies
bone resection
joint arthroplasty
joint fusions
reconstructions of tendons, nerves