BPT class material. Duration 2hrs.

1. SKIN CONDITIONS
BPT class
Dr. Anwesh Pradhan (PT)
MPT (Neurology & Psychosomatic disorders)
Asst. Prof. NIHS, Kolkata

2. PSORIASIS
 Psoriasis is a common skin condition that changes the
life cycle of skin cells. Psoriasis causes cells to build up
rapidly on the surface of the skin. The extra skin cells
form thick, silvery scales and itchy, dry, red patches that
are sometimes painful.
 Psoriasis is a persistent, long-lasting (chronic) disease.
There may be times when your psoriasis symptoms get
better alternating with times your psoriasis worsens.

3.  Affected skin is painful,
itchy, often bleeds, and is
debilitating when involving
the face, genitals, palms, or
soles
• Under the microscope, affected skin is
thickened, has increased blood vessels,
and contains numerous white blood
cells

4. CLASSIC ANATOMIC LOCATIONS FOR
PSORIASIS
Scalp (80%)
Elbows (78%)
Legs (74%)
Knees (57%)
Nails (10-55%)
Gluteal cleft
Palms/soles (12%)

5. CLINICAL VARIANTS
 Chronic plaque psoriasis
 Guttate psoriasis
 Erythrodermic psoriasis
 Generalized pustular psoriasis (von
Zumbusch)
 Localized pustular psoriasis
 Palmaris et plantaris
 Acrodermatitis continua
 Inverse psoriasis

13. PSORIATIC NAIL CHANGES
Onycholysis
“Oil drops”
“Salmon patches”
Pitting
Subungual debris
Onychodystrophy
Splinter hemorrhages

15. ACNE VULGARIS
 Acne vulgaris is a common chronic skin disease
involving blockage and/or inflammation of
pilosebaceous units (hair follicles and their
accompanying sebaceous gland). Acne can present
as noninflammatory lesions, inflammatory lesions,
or a mixture of both, affecting mostly the face but
also the back and chest.

22. ECZEMA
 Eczema is an inflammatory in the skin, with
associated odema

30. VITILIGO
 Vitiligo is a condition in which destruction of
melanocytes in local areas causing white patches in
the skin

33. ALOPECIA
 Absence or premature loss of hair

36. PRURITIS
 Pruritus simply means itching.
 Pruritus can result from drug reaction, food allergy,
kidney or liver disease, cancers, parasites, aging or
dry skin, contact skin reaction, such as poison ivy,
and for unknown reasons.