Appointment prep
Prepare for an ankylosing spondylitis evaluation
Inflammatory back pain, especially at night and with rest, is often dismissed as mechanical back pain. Medvo helps you highlight red flags and request HLA-B27 and imaging.
Symptoms patients describe
- · Inflammatory back pain worse at night and with rest, better with movement
- · Morning stiffness, enthesitis, uveitis history
- · Fatigue and family history of autoimmune disease
Tests & referrals to request
Framed as evaluation — your clinician decides what is appropriate.
- · HLA-B27 testing and MRI of sacroiliac joints (not just X-ray)
- · Referral to rheumatologist experienced in spondyloarthritis
- · Documentation of symptom pattern over time
If you've been dismissed
- · Told 'everyone has back pain' or 'just stretch'
- · Only offered NSAIDs without further investigation