History
- Pain: Location, radiation, quality, timing, aggravating, relieving, duration
- Other: stiffness, locking, deformity, clunk, giving way, instability
- Function: dressing, washing back, bra, toilet, combing, feeding, reaching to high shelf, lifting weight, throwing, pulling, work, sport
- Past history: neck, treatment, injury, surgery, similar episodes
Exam
- Look: swelling (olecranon bursa or RA nodule), wasting, deformity, scars, biceps, undressing
- Feel: temperature, nodules, synovial thickening, fluid accumulation, tenderness on bony landmarks
- Movement: crepitus, active & passive ROM (flexion/extension, pronation/supination)
- Ligaments : varus, valgus, PLRI (posterolateral rotatory instability)
- Neurovascular