Follow Dr. Win Huang – Clinical Thinking Series 7 When a Locked Knee Is Not a Meniscus Tear This case is a very typical example of how easily we can be misled by diagnostic labels. The patient was a young man. Three months ago, he had been squatting at work for about five to ten […]

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Follow Dr. Win Huang to Learn Clinical Medicine 6 When Shoulder Pain Is Misled by Tender Points — The Answer Lies Deep in the Axilla This patient is one of my long-time patients.He had been experiencing right anterior shoulder pain for about three months. Most of the time it didn’t hurt much, but certain movements […]

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Follow Dr. Win Huang to Learn Clinical Thinking (Case 5) Severe Knee Pain in Osteoarthritis — But the Real Problem Wasn’t the Joint This patient was a 68-year-old woman who came with her daughter. She had suffered from knee pain for many years, but in recent months her right knee had worsened significantly. She described […]

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Following Dr. Huang in Clinical Practice (4) A 10-Year Chronic Low Back Pain: The Answer Was Not at the Pain Site, but in the Posture Some conditions are not hard to treat — they are simply misread for years. This case was a classic example of clinical reasoning correction for me. I went through layers […]

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Case 5|Ten Years of Low Back Pain — A Turning Point from “Pain-Spot Thinking” to “Force-Line Thinking” ① Case Background The patient is a middle-aged male who had suffered from chronic low back pain for nearly ten years. Over the past decade, he had tried various treatments including physiotherapy, massage, chiropractic adjustments, and acupuncture. Each […]

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Dr. Huang’s Clinical Reflections | Learn Clinical Reasoning with Dr. Huang Facial Sensitivity to Wind, a “Swollen” Tongue: A Clinical Sign I Almost Overlooked What makes this case truly interesting is not the final conclusion,but the fact that for a long time, I treated two symptoms as two separate problems. In reality, they originated from […]

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“TMJ Discomfort” with a Cervical Origin: A Reverse Diagnosis Involving the Great Auricular Nerve This type of patient can easily lead a clinician off track.He arrives with a “diagnosis” already formed — temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ). But in clinical reality, the diagnosis brought by the patient is often unreliable.The clinician’s job is not to follow […]

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Pain in the Buttock, Problem in the Abdomen: A Counter-Intuitive Diagnosis of Iliacus Strain This case is not complicated, but it is highly instructive. It challenges a common clinical misconception: The location of pain is not equal to the location of the lesion. If you focus only on “buttock pain,” your treatment direction will drift […]

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This young dancer had heel pain for 8 months. In India, she received 6 months of physiotherapy. All of them diagnosed plantar fasciitis and treated the bottom of her foot. But the pain never truly improved. When she came to my clinic in New Zealand, I found something very different during the examination. She had […]

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A Case of Imaging-Confirmed Delayed-Onset Olfactory–Gustatory Disturbance Following Traumatic Brain Injury (Record dated 06-01-2026) 1. Patient Information Patient: MaleAge: Approximately 30 yearsBackground: KiwiPast Medical History:No history of upper respiratory tract infection.No prior smell or taste disturbance related to common cold or infection. 2. Injury History (Clearly Identified Primary Event) Approximately three months prior, the patient […]

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