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What are the 3 main categories of joint?
What is distinctive about fibrous joints and what is an example?
What is distinctive about cartilaginous joints and what is an example?
What is distinctive about synovial joints and what is an example?
What are the 7 types of synovial joint?
Where would you find planar joints?
Where would you find simple hinge joints? (2)
Where would you find ball and socket joints? (2)
Where would you find pivot joints? (2)
Where would you find saddle joints?
Where would you find a complex hinge joint?
Where would you find a condyloid joint?
What are 5 ways to achieve joint stability?
Describe the key features of a synovial joint (7)
What are the 2 basic components of a proteoglycan?
What is the most abundant proteoglycan in humans?
What are the GAGs in aggrecan? (3)
What is the basic structure of aggrecan?
What is the function of the proteoglycans in cartilage?
Describe the structure of the synovium (synovial membrane) (4)
What are the main characteristics of synovial fluid? (3)
How is synovial fluid dynamic?
What is usually the cause of acute monoarticular arthritis?
What is usually the cause of acute polyarticular arthritis?
What can be the causes of chronic arthritis? (2)
What is the difference between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA)?
What is the cause of joint effusions in arthritis?
What are the 2 basic categories of arthritic conditions?
What are 3 examples of inflammatory, poly symmetrical arthritic conditions?
Give 3 examples of oligo asymmetrical or mono arthritic conditions.
Why should you do tests such as blood cultures and joint aspirations before giving any treatment?
What causes gout?
What is the name given to a single deposition of urate in a joint?
If gout is left untreated, and thus the patients' serum urate levels are persistently high, what can be the result?
What is the treatment for acute gout? (2)
Why is it important to consider lifestyle changes when treating gout/chronic high levels of uric acid?
Why is it important to treat RA as early as possible?
What is the treatment for RA? (3)
