Evidence-informed Clinical Decision- Making for Lower Extremity Hyperalgesia and Allodynia in a 42 year-old Woman Presenting with Low Back Pain -A Case Report
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Clinical assessment is an art which involves systematic, accurate determination of the etiological factors that influences the patient’s symptoms. Since clinical presentation of a symptom can be influenced by multiple contributing factors, evaluating for various etiological factors that influence the symptoms are mandatory for successful treatment. It is a clinician’s most important responsibility to determine the underlying causes of the patient’s symptoms with differential assessment based on sound multidimensional clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning is a continuing thought process towards clinical decision. Absence of sound clinical reasoning makes clinical assessment and treatment as a technical operation which often require direction from a decision maker. 1
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