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When your patients present with calf pain, do you have a clear understanding of the likely causes and potential differential diagnosis? Do they have any red flags that require urgent medical attention? What other issues besides a calf tear could be causing their calf pain?

It's time to brush off those diagnostic skills, to understand the types of calf pain you can treat, and which patients you need to refer on immediately.

In this podcast with Tom Goom and David Pope, we are going to break it down for you, so you are confident in assessing and diagnosing the different types of calf pain. You will understand:

How to identify calf muscle pathology or tears
When symptoms are due to neural irritation or pathology
Different types of vascular pathology, including popliteal artery entrapment
Red flags such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
What information imaging can provide

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065. Differential diagnosis of calf pain in runners with Tom Goom

Physio Edge podcast with David Pope

065. Differential diagnosis of calf pain in runners with Tom Goom