Free PRISM clinical reasoning cheat sheets

Four one-page cheat sheets for musculoskeletal assessment, each with a fillable practice page, from Dr Roopa Rao PT. Free for personal and educational use.

What's inside

  1. The 5 Flags: red, orange, yellow, blue and black flags, side by side.
  2. Sources of Symptoms: where symptoms may be coming from: somatic, neurogenic, visceral or vascular.
  3. Tissue Healing Timeline: the stages of tissue healing, from acute to chronic.
  4. Patient Perspectives: what the patient believes and feels about their problem, adapted from the Brief IPQ.

Each cheat sheet comes with a fillable practice page.

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Who it's for

  • Students: practise before postings.
  • New grads: a repeatable order for first assessments.
  • Clinicians: check your own reasoning.
  • Educators: a shared structure to discuss cases.

Use fictional or fully de-identified cases only.

We’ll email you the cheat sheets straight away, from Dr Roopa Rao PT, and the free PRISM email course when it’s ready. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link.

© PhysiologicPRISM LLP — free for personal and educational use
Credits: the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF); the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Broadbent et al.); the clinical flags framework (red, orange, yellow, blue, black flags); and Jones’s clinical reasoning work (Jones MA, Rivett DA).
Educational content, not medical advice. We can’t advise on individual symptoms — please see a physiotherapist or doctor in person.

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