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Please provide a tip on how to ask your doctor about bursitis.
8 doctors weighed in across 6 answers
Ignore: My joints always aches when i'm overdoing it daily.
Answered 3/31/2014
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Ignore: A common cause of knee pain is pes anserine bursitis: ask your MD to check if seeing for knee pain.
Answered 6/19/2014
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Ignore: If you've changed a technique for an activity you do a lot:, like changing golf grip, tell the doc.
Answered 8/3/2014
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Ignore: Make sure to differentiate between tendinitis, tenosynovitis and entesopathy when checking for it.
Answered 12/7/2014
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Ignore: Ask what areas of the body get bursitis ( shoulder ,elbow , hip, knee) and what complaints one has.
Answered 1/13/2016
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Ignore: Steroid injection is usually curative! Failure? Not bursitis!
Answered 11/10/2019
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