Past medical history: Identifying prior locomotor complaints and disorders (surgeries, fractures, sprains, joint inflammation, etc.)
Present complaints: qualitative evaluation of pain, revealing home and work circumstances related to locomotor organs
Functional assessment: posture and gait assessment, axial deviations of joints – examination of chest, spine and joint shape, functional assessment of the spine, examination of motion range and deformities of the small and large joints (shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, ankles)
Diagnostic imaging: managing and evaluating X-ray, US (ultrasound), CT (computer tomography) and MR (magnetic resonance) scans
Laboratory diagnostics: managing and evaluating tests required in inflammatory, autoimmune and other conditions and for surgical preparations
Conservative methods: summary of therapeutic recommendations, documentation, issuing outpatient examination and treatment reports
Prescription of medicines and medical aids
Joint injections, administration of steroids, viscosupplementation, hyaluronic acid
Physical therapy: physiotherapy exercises, physical therapy: management of ultrasound or electrical therapy
Surgery is performed at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the B-A-Z County Hospital and University Teaching Hospital.