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Red Flags [17] |
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| HISTORY |
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION |
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| Cancer |
Saddle anesthesia |
| Unexplained weight loss |
Loss of anal sphincter tone |
| Immunosuppression |
Major motor weakness in lower extremities |
| Prolonged use of steroids |
Fever |
| Intravenous drug use |
Vertebral tenderness |
| Urinary tract infection |
Limited spinal range of motion |
| Pain that is increased or unrelieved by rest |
Neurologic findings persisting beyond one month |
| Fever |
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| Significant trauma related to age (e.g., fall from a height or motor vehicle accident in a young patient, minor fall or heavy lifting in a potentially osteoporotic or older patient or a person with possible osteoporosis) |
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| Bladder or bowel incontinence |
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| Urinary retention (with overflow incontinence) |
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Pringle and Wyatt Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2006 14:8 doi:10.1186/1746-1340-14-8 |
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