Infection/ Inflammatory
- Anklyosing spondylitis
- Reiter's syndrome
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Vertebral osteomyelitis
- Endocarditis
- Tuberculosis
Spondylogenic
- Fracture: traumatic, insufficiency, pathologic
- Metabolic bone disease
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease
- Osteodystrophy
- Osteoarthritis
Gynecologic
- Reproductive cancers
- Retroversion of the uterus
- Uterine fibroids
- Ovarian cysts
- Endometriosis
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Incest/sexual assault
- Rectocele, cystocele
- Uterine prolapse
- Pregnancy
Gastrointestinal
- Ulcerative colitis
- Colon cancer
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Crohn's disease
Cancer
- Primary tumor
- Metastatic lesion
- Prostate cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Multiple myeloma
Other
- Fibromyalgia
References:
1. Goodman, C. & Snyder, T. (2007). Differential Diagnosis for Physical Therapists: Screening for Referral. St. Louis, Missouri: Saunders Elsevier.