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What You’ll Learn:

  • A structured, repeatable framework for assessing shoulder pain presentations
  • How to differentiate key pathologies including rotator cuff tears, labral injuries, AC joint pathology, shoulder impingement, and instability
  • Which orthopedic special tests are most clinically meaningful and how to interpret them accurately
  • How to rule out referred pain sources and identify when imaging or referral is warranted

Why It Matters:

The shoulder is one of the most mobile and most injured joints in the body — and that mobility comes at the cost of complexity. With so many overlapping structures and referral patterns that can mimic local pathology, the shoulder is easy to misassess without a clear system. This course gives you a reliable, evidence-based framework so you can walk into every shoulder assessment with confidence and walk out with a clinical picture that actually guides your treatment.

Course curriculum

    1. Getting Started

    1. Shoulder DDx PowerPoint Slides

    2. Lesson 1 - Shoulder Anatomy

    3. Lesson 2 - Common Shoulder Diagnoses (How Do These Fit Together?)

    4. Lesson 3 - Less Common Diagnoses

    5. Lesson 4 - Controversial Diagnoses

    6. Lesson 5 - Where to Start

    7. Lesson 6 - Recommended Shoulder Classifications

    8. Lesson 7 - What This Exam Looks Like

    9. Lesson 8 - How It Works In Practice

    10. Lesson 9 - When to Refer Out

    11. Lesson 10 - General Treatment Guidelines Based on Classifications

    1. Shoulder Assessment Example

    2. The Treatment Triad Matrix Cheat Sheet

    1. Course Evaluation Form

About this course

  • Free
  • 15 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

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