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Osteopathic Principles
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. In the lumbar spine - an increased lumbosacral angel is associated with a...
Musculoskeletal
At the apex
Posterior articular facet approximation.
Engaging the barrier - followed by a short - quick thrust
2. Somatic dysfunction of the sacroiliac functional untis can produce symtoms of dysmenorrhea. This relationship is an example of a
Sympathetics via celiac plexus
Horizontal - sagittal - coronal
Right roation is freer than left rotation and left rotation is restricted.
Somato-visceral reflex
3. Psoas major is responsible for...
Forward bending of the lumbar spine
Firm - fibrotic changes
Thoracic pump - resistive duction and muscle energy techniques - cervical soft tissue treatment - manipulation to improve sympathetic vasomotor function.
Spondylolisthesis
4. A patient has been given specific manipulation twice for an acute tissue change at T3 on the right. The response has been equivocal. What would be the next step?
At the apex
Somato-visceral reflex
Difference in iliac crest heighths
Re-evaluate diagnosis
5. In the standing position a test which gives a high degree of reliability for determing an anatomical short leg is...
Serve to thelp limit motion at the extremes
Mid-sagittal plane
Difference in iliac crest heighths
T10-T11
6. The detection of tissue texture abnormality is best achieved by
Negative intrathoracic pressure
Musculoskeletal
Hamstring muscles
Palpating right vs. left and above vs. below
7. Intervertebral somatic dysfunction is named for what?
The upper vertebral body in relation to the lower
Vasa nervorum
Forward bending of the lumbar spine
Freedom of forward/backward bending
8. Adrenal disturbances are related to somatic dysfuntion at what spinal segmental level?
For temperature sense
T10-T11
Firm - fibrotic changes
Internal rotator
9. Most reliable palpatory finding of a suspected disease process.
Serve to thelp limit motion at the extremes
Hamstring muscles
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
Mobility changes
10. A physical finding as 'rotated right' would imply what?
T10-T11
Firm - fibrotic changes
Internal rotator
Right roation is freer than left rotation and left rotation is restricted.
11. Andrew Taylor Still was
Thinning of skin - smooth shiny appearance - dryness and loss of hair
A Virginian whose family migrated to Missouri and Kansas
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
The major motions of the joint.
12. When the resting membrane potential of a neuron requires less stimulation to reach the threshold of excitation - it is called what?
Negative intrathoracic pressure
Facilitation
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
Motion in a sagittal plane in relation to a transverse axis.
13. The first professional organized school of Osteopathy.
Facilitation
Evert the foot
American School of Osteopathy - Kirksville - MO
Spondylolisthesis
14. The best criterion of successful therapeutic application of a direct trust technique is determined by what?
Is stationary relative to the lever though which force is applied
C7-T1
Re-evaluation of motion of the treated area.
Cuboid
15. In foot and ankle dysfunction - restriction will generally be found in what?
At the apex
The head of the rib does not articulate with the demifacet of the segment above.
The lower segment.
The major motions of the joint.
16. A fulcrum and/or axis
Right roation is freer than left rotation and left rotation is restricted.
Is stationary relative to the lever though which force is applied
Sympathetics via celiac plexus
Soft tissue treatment.
17. The maxilla is considered an...
Motion in a sagittal plane in relation to a transverse axis.
Is stationary relative to the lever though which force is applied
Unpaired cranial bone
Mid-sagittal plane
18. Palpable tissue change ina spinal segment area relatng to acute viscero somatic reflex is most evident at the _________
T10-T11
Costo-transverse area
Engaging the barrier - followed by a short - quick thrust
American School of Osteopathy - Kirksville - MO
19. Palmar aspects of the hands or fingers are most sensitive...
For temperature sense
C7-T1
T10-T11
Deep sacral suclus left - lubar lateral curve convex left - low iliac crest left.
20. What relaxes or stimulates - depending on how it is applied?
Difference in iliac crest heighths
Posterior articular facet approximation.
Facilitation
Soft tissue treatment.
21. The ligaments of the vertebral column serve to help limit motion where?
At its extremes
Spondylolisthesis
Anterior to the sacral base
Rotates and sidebends to the same side
22. Somatic dysfunction of the midthoracic spine can cause gastrointestinal symptoms. This is an example of ________
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
Thoracic pump - resistive duction and muscle energy techniques - cervical soft tissue treatment - manipulation to improve sympathetic vasomotor function.
Facilitation
Somato-visceral reflex
23. In lateral curves - the maximal rotation will occur where?
At the apex
Vertebral body is rotated into the convexity
Vasa nervorum
Mid-sagittal plane
24. Flexion-extension is...
Motion in a sagittal plane in relation to a transverse axis.
Mobility changes
Soft tissue treatment.
Abduct the leg
25. Proprioceptive impulses which may be responsible for the facilitated segment do not come from where?
Fascia
Soft tissue treatment.
Hamstring muscles
Facilitation
26. The 'keystone' of the lateral longitudinal arch of the foot is what?
Cuboid
Thoracic pump - resistive duction and muscle energy techniques - cervical soft tissue treatment - manipulation to improve sympathetic vasomotor function.
Somato-visceral reflex
Mid-sagittal plane
27. In a patient who has a chronic lateral group curve of the thoracic spine - physical findings typically include what?
Thinning of skin - smooth shiny appearance - dryness and loss of hair
Evert the foot
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
The major motions of the joint.
28. In applying stretching to the thoracic paravertebral muscles - care must be taken to introduce ________________.
Cuboid
Motion in a sagittal plane in relation to a transverse axis.
And release force slowly and to avoid rolling the hands over spinous processes.
External rotator muscles.
29. In a normally compensated scoliosis of the lumbar spine - the atructural rrelationship usually found is...
Abduct the leg
Somato-visceral reflex
Vertebral body is rotated into the convexity
At its extremes
30. When the spine is in neutral and side bending is introduced - the segments move in ______.
Groups
C7-T1
Mobility changes
The head of the rib does not articulate with the demifacet of the segment above.
31. The resistance to spinal movement observed in joint dysfunctions is...
Site predisposing to disease
Hamstring muscles
Different in every plane of motion
C7-T1
32. When flexion or extension is sufficient to localize force to a single segment the vertebrae....
Vasa nervorum
Site predisposing to disease
Rotates and sidebends to the same side
Firm - fibrotic changes
33. The major upper abdominal viscera receive their sympathetic efferents via the great splanchnic nerve whose segemnts of origin are
The lower segment.
Palpating right vs. left and above vs. below
T5-T9
Somato-visceral reflex
34. When the occiput is consdiered posterior on the right - the occiput is considered
Groups
Hamstring muscles
Evert the foot
Sidebent to the left and rotated to the right
35. When resting membrane potential of a neuron requires less stimulation to reach the threshold of excitation it is called _____
C7-T1
Facilitation
Soft tissue treatment.
Sympathetics via celiac plexus
36. The function of the gastrocnemius-plantaris-soleus muscle comibation is to...
Sympathetics via celiac plexus
Forward bending of the lumbar spine
At the apex
Evert the foot
37. Examination of the shoulder reveals restriction of internal rotation of gleno-humeral joint. Soft tissue stretching treatment of the shoulder should be directed toward what muscles?
External rotator muscles.
Proprioceptive muscle spindle reflex
The upper vertebral body in relation to the lower
Unpaired cranial bone
38. What is the arterial supply network to the major nerve trunks and their branches?
T5-T9
Facilitation
Vasa nervorum
Unpaired cranial bone
39. Bilateral spondylolsis of L-5 predisposes to...
Spondylolisthesis
Re-evaluation of motion of the treated area.
Engaging the barrier - followed by a short - quick thrust
The major motions of the joint.
40. What is the primary mechanism responsible for the maintenace of skeletal muscle tone?
Posterior articular facet approximation.
Mobility changes
Proprioceptive muscle spindle reflex
Abduct the leg
41. Existence of somatic dysfunction is clinically significant because it is...
Evert the foot
Facilitation
Site predisposing to disease
Rotates and sidebends to the same side
42. A projection of the mid-heel line in a normal patient is the same as the what?
Sympathetics via celiac plexus
Unpaired cranial bone
American School of Osteopathy - Kirksville - MO
Mid-sagittal plane
43. The ligaments of the vertebral column...
Serve to thelp limit motion at the extremes
Site predisposing to disease
Firm - fibrotic changes
Vasa nervorum
44. What is the manipulative method utilized to assist in the movement of fluids?
Engaging the barrier - followed by a short - quick thrust
At its extremes
Thoracic pump - resistive duction and muscle energy techniques - cervical soft tissue treatment - manipulation to improve sympathetic vasomotor function.
Somato-visceral reflex
45. Somactic dysfunction of the sacra-iliac functional units can produce symptoms of dysmenorrhea. This relationship is an example of what reflex?
Somato-visceral reflex
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
Serve to thelp limit motion at the extremes
Proprioceptive muscle spindle reflex
46. The quick release component of the lymphatic pump technique as it is applied to the chse effects a ___________
Musculoskeletal
Cuboid
Firm - fibrotic changes
Negative intrathoracic pressure
47. In testing for adductor muscle shortening or restriction - you would do what?
Posterior articular facet approximation.
T5-T9
Abduct the leg
Horizontal - sagittal - coronal
48. The three cardinal (standard) planes of reference for the body are the....
Deep sacral suclus left - lubar lateral curve convex left - low iliac crest left.
Forward bending of the lumbar spine
Costo-transverse area
Horizontal - sagittal - coronal
49. What is the largest organ system of the body?
Right roation is freer than left rotation and left rotation is restricted.
Facilitation
Musculoskeletal
Horizontal - sagittal - coronal
50. If the Ferguson's lumbo-sacral angle is measure as 65 degrees - the line of weight bearing of the spine would be expected to pass______
Forward bending of the lumbar spine
The lower segment.
Anterior to the sacral base
Somato-visceral reflex