What Is the Axial Skeleton?

Skeletal percussion is a physical examination in which the doctor systematically observes and examines the patient and conducts percussion to check whether there is any abnormal pain in the bone when it is hit, and reveals the body's normal or abnormal signs.

Name: Bone examination

category: Other as

Normal bone examination

The examination showed no pain.

Clinical Significance of Bone Percussion

Abnormal results: (1) Axial throbbing pain: stay away from the injury, and tap along the longitudinal axis of the limb, can induce pain in the injury, indicating that the injury is fractured. (2) Local tapping: Those who can cause pain often indicate that the lesion is deep.

People to be checked: those who have swollen, sore, tingling, burning-like pain, tingling pain, radiation pain, or jumping pain in bones.

Skeletal percussion notes

Inappropriate: None. Contraindications before examination: No special contraindications. Requirement during inspection: Examine and relax, you should actively face and cooperate with the inspection.

Bone examination

The patient's forearm was placed in the pronation semiflexion position. The examiner placed his thumb on the biceps tendon and tapped the thumb with a percussion hammer, causing elbow flexion. The patient's elbow is half-flexed, the forearm is pronated, and the radial styloid process is tapped with a percussion hammer, which can cause forearm flexion and external rotation. The patient's elbow is half-flexed, and the forearm is half-anteriorly rotated. Using a percussion hammer to tap the ulnar styloid process can cause forearm pronation. The patient lies supine with both knees flexed. The examiner holds the popliteal fossa, instructs the patient to relax the muscles, and gently taps the ligament with a percussion hammer, causing the knee to stretch. The patient is supine, the knee joint is half-flexed, and the calf is externally rotated. The examiner holds the patient's front half-foot and gently stretches the ankle. Using the percussion hammer to hit the Achilles tendon can cause ankle flexion.