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She feels fine.
When she stands up is when it feels the stiffest and then it gets better with movement.
So the only thing I can think of here is that it doesn't sound yet like this is an articular process, but if it were...
it would be inflammatory in nature, given that it improves with movement.
But the reason it's, and you have to realize too, with the hip, it's such a deep joint that even if you examine this patient, and remember audience, Zolvin is trying to navigate this through a telephone.
Who even knows, like he might not even be looking at the patient's hip.
We'll get more detailed, you know, in a short time.
But the hip is a deep-seated joint.
So even visibly, it might look fine.
But when you move it, you know, and examine the patient,
you might elicit discomfort, which points to a deeper structural problem.
But the other thing I thought about sudden onset in a young guy is could this be testicular torsion?
Could this patient have something happening that's outside of the hip area that's referring pain there?
But I don't know how that would necessarily improve with movement.
Robbie, anything else to layer on before we get more data?
Yeah, I think, Zalman, this is really helpful because now we can say the patient's inflamed.
And I think once this case completely, you know, you tell us what happens, maybe this hip pain and its acute onset is going to be related to the fever.
At time point zero, all our attention would be to the joint and making sure the patient doesn't have a septic joint.
But now that the pain has completely resolved, that is inconsistent with the possibility that you have an intra-articular infection.
So now we have fever with no localizing symptoms.