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• Your Shoes Walk Into the Room Too: Footwear Notes for Your Exam
  A plain list of the shoes you wear, and how they feel, can give an examiner useful context before any hands-on work begins.2026-10-23
• The Strap Across Your Shoulder: What a Seat Belt Can Leave Behind
  A seat belt works by loading your body in a few specific places, and noting where you felt that load helps you describe the ride to an examiner.2026-10-23
• Asked Twice on Purpose: Why an Examiner Repeats the Same Questions
  A repeated question during a joint exam is usually a deliberate check, and knowing why can help you give more useful answers.2026-10-23
• What the Roadside Leaves Behind: Keeping the Scene Facts Straight for Your Visit
  A few plain facts written down while they are fresh can make your first exam easier to follow, and the paperwork that follows is worth keeping in one place.2026-10-22
• The Car Is in the Shop: Getting to Your Exam Without a Ride of Your Own
  When the car is damaged or gone, a few decisions made early keep the first visit from slipping away.2026-10-22
• Reading the Words in Your Exam Notes: What Resolved, Stable and Unremarkable Mean
  A plain guide to the shorthand in crash-exam notes, and how to ask about a word before it becomes part of your file.2026-10-22
• Reach, Catch, Give Way: Describing How a Joint Moves Before the Examiner Asks
  Plain words for range of motion, the moments a joint catches or gives way, and how to say them clearly at your exam.2026-10-22
• Nights Count: Telling the Examiner How You Sleep After a Crash
  Sleep, sleeping position and night-time waking are useful details to bring to an exam, and a few plain notes can make them easier to describe.2026-10-22
• Hands on the Wheel: Wrists and Thumbs After a Crash
  Wrists and thumbs take a surprising share of the load in a crash, and they are easy to overlook when attention stays on the neck and back.2026-10-22
• Barometer Days: What to Tell the Examiner About Weather and Your Joints
  Many people notice that a joint feels different when the weather turns, and a short, dated note gives an examiner a clearer picture of your week.2026-10-22
• Asking for a Copy of Your Own Chart, and What to Check When It Arrives
  Your visit notes, imaging reports and medication list are yours to request, and comparing them with your own record can help you prepare for the next appointment.2026-10-22
• When the appointment needs an interpreter
  If English is not the language you use most comfortably, asking about interpretation before booking can help you decide whether a visit will meet your needs.2026-10-21
• It stopped hurting before the appointment. What should you bring?
  When a joint problem comes and goes, a short account of the interrupted task can help you explain why you booked an exam.2026-10-20
• A hot, swollen joint changes the appointment question
  When a joint becomes newly warm and swollen, the first decision is how promptly it needs medical assessment and where that assessment can happen.2026-10-19
• The joint that was already bad: arthritis, old injuries and an honest history
  A knee with arthritis or a shoulder with an old sports injury does not stop being worth an exam after a crash. How to tell the examiner what was there before and what changed.2026-09-09
• Clicks, pops and grinding: joint noises that are new since the crash
  Joints make noise, and most of it means little. A noise that arrived with the crash is different. How to describe it so an examiner can use it.2026-08-30
• The braced leg: ankle, knee and hip after the brake pedal
  A foot jammed on the brake sends the crash up the leg in a straight line. The entry on the joints that take a hit from the floor, and what the exam checks in each.2026-08-19