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Differential Diagnosis
At Core Concepts, we believe in the 'Thinking Physiotherapist'. We back up that belief with a substantial investment on our part to keep current at the latest thoughts and practices.
We approach each case with no pre-conceived ideas on what the problems are. Spinal conditions are complex in nature. Usually with more than one cause interacting at many different levels.
Our ability to treat patients better, faster is first and foremost dependent on our ability for effective differential diagnosis. Differential diagnosis is the systematic method healthcare used to identify the disease causing a patient's symptoms. In other words, part of diagnosis is attempting to narrow down the list of possible diagnoses until one emerges as the best. The term differential evolves from the word differences. The concept of differential diagnosis involves observing and discovering signs and symptoms, then progressively considering the most likely illnesses, then continuously narrowing down the possible diagnoses, eliminating one after another, until one is left with only one specific diagnosis for the patient's signs and symptoms.
Differential Diagnosis is the process whereby a given condition or circumstance, called the presenting problem or chief complaint, is examined in terms of underlying causal factors and concurrent phenomena as discerned by appropriate disciplinary perspectives and according to several theoretical paradigms or frames of reference, and compared to known categories of pathology or exceptionality.
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