Having to assess this man remotely didn’t prove to be a weakness for his doctor, who aced diagnosing the patient’s tennis injury despite the distance.

The 54-year-old man presented for an orthopaedic video consultation with pain in his left lower leg that had been present since playing tennis the previous day.

He reported lunging to the right off his left foot and feeling a tearing sensation in his lower left leg, on which he had been unable to bear weight since.

Certain physical examinations, such as squeezing the calf to assess plantar flexion, obviously couldn’t be carried out.