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Andrew A. Skolnick

JAMA. 1998;279:572-573.

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ALTHOUGH "GOLFER'S wrist" by any other name will still hurt the same, that colorful moniker tells a patient more about the nature and cause of his or her injury than would any polysyllabic scientific term—as do such descriptive terms as "housemaid's knee," "lover's fracture," "preacher's knee," "snowboarder's fracture," and the more familiar "tennis elbow."

(Photo credit: Kevin R. Math, MD)

"Preacher's knee," a chronic injury to the infrapatella superficial bursa, was more common before the introduction of padded kneelers in churches and kneepads for workers who do a lot of kneeling. An x-ray image shows calcification of the bursa involved in a "preacher's knee" injury. (Photo credit: Kevin R. Math, MD)

"Some occupations and activities are so frequently associated with specific musculoskeletal conditions that the injuries are referred to by eponyms rather than by formal clinical terminology," said Kevin R. Math, MD, a radiologist at Beth Israel . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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