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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Intervertebral somatic dysfunction is named for what?
Motion in a sagittal plane in relation to a transverse axis.
The upper vertebral body in relation to the lower
Abduct the leg
Somato-visceral reflex
2. What is the term for a congential enlargement of the transverse processes?
Mobility changes
Evert the foot
And release force slowly and to avoid rolling the hands over spinous processes.
Batwing deformity
3. In the lumbar spine - an increased lumbosacral angel is associated with a...
Posterior articular facet approximation.
The lower segment.
Flex the knee on the thigh
Rotates and sidebends to the same side
4. The first professional organized school of Osteopathy.
Firm - fibrotic changes
Unpaired cranial bone
American School of Osteopathy - Kirksville - MO
C7-T1
5. Involvement of the greater splanchnic nerves directly modifies the....
Freedom of forward/backward bending
Sympathetics via celiac plexus
Mid-sagittal plane
Proprioceptive muscle spindle reflex
6. In lateral curves - the maximal rotation will occur where?
Soft tissue treatment.
Cuboid
Batwing deformity
At the apex
7. Andrew Taylor Still was
Posterior articular facet approximation.
The head of the rib does not articulate with the demifacet of the segment above.
Vertebral body is rotated into the convexity
A Virginian whose family migrated to Missouri and Kansas
8. What is the arterial supply network to the major nerve trunks and their branches?
Vasa nervorum
Somato-visceral reflex
Facilitation
Horizontal - sagittal - coronal
9. Somatic dysfunction of the midthoracic spine can cause gastrointestinal symptoms. This is an example of ________
A Virginian whose family migrated to Missouri and Kansas
Soft tissue treatment.
American School of Osteopathy - Kirksville - MO
Somato-visceral reflex
10. In a normally compensated scoliosis of the lumbar spine - the atructural rrelationship usually found is...
Negative intrathoracic pressure
Re-evaluate diagnosis
Vertebral body is rotated into the convexity
T10-T11
11. Palmar aspects of the hands or fingers are most sensitive...
For temperature sense
Hamstring muscles
Facilitation
The upper vertebral body in relation to the lower
12. The detection of tissue texture abnormality is best achieved by
The lower segment.
Hamstring muscles
Batwing deformity
Palpating right vs. left and above vs. below
13. In the standing position a test which gives a high degree of reliability for determing an anatomical short leg is...
Mid-sagittal plane
Somato-visceral reflex
C7-T1
Difference in iliac crest heighths
14. Intervertebral somatic dysfunctions is named for the upper in relation to what?
Re-evaluate diagnosis
Proprioceptive muscle spindle reflex
The lower segment.
Facilitation
15. Proper execution of direct thrust technique involves...
Engaging the barrier - followed by a short - quick thrust
Fascia
Evert the foot
Motion in a sagittal plane in relation to a transverse axis.
16. The assessment of spinous processes is very useful in determining what?
Costo-transverse area
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
Freedom of forward/backward bending
Engaging the barrier - followed by a short - quick thrust
17. Flexion-extension is...
Motion in a sagittal plane in relation to a transverse axis.
Somato-visceral reflex
C7-T1
Groups
18. Somactic dysfunction of the sacra-iliac functional units can produce symptoms of dysmenorrhea. This relationship is an example of what reflex?
Vertebral body is rotated into the convexity
Forward bending of the lumbar spine
Somato-visceral reflex
Posterior articular facet approximation.
19. What is the primary mechanism responsible for the maintenace of skeletal muscle tone?
Proprioceptive muscle spindle reflex
Negative intrathoracic pressure
Somato-visceral reflex
Groups
20. Existence of somatic dysfunction is clinically significant because it is...
Spondylolisthesis
Site predisposing to disease
Flex the knee on the thigh
Negative intrathoracic pressure
21. The 'keystone' of the lateral longitudinal arch of the foot is what?
Musculoskeletal
Motion in a sagittal plane in relation to a transverse axis.
Site predisposing to disease
Cuboid
22. Typical accomodation to an anatomically short left leg would be expected to be associated with what?
Deep sacral suclus left - lubar lateral curve convex left - low iliac crest left.
Horizontal - sagittal - coronal
Is stationary relative to the lever though which force is applied
Spondylolisthesis
23. Adrenal disturbances are related to somatic dysfuntion at what spinal segmental level?
Rotates and sidebends to the same side
For temperature sense
Sympathetics via celiac plexus
T10-T11
24. 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?
External rotator muscles.
Re-evaluate diagnosis
Conservatively in proportion to the amount of tissue damage which is suspected.
Freedom of forward/backward bending
25. The three cardinal (standard) planes of reference for the body are the....
Horizontal - sagittal - coronal
At its extremes
Serve to thelp limit motion at the extremes
Re-evaluate diagnosis
26. Most reliable palpatory finding of a suspected disease process.
Re-evaluation of motion of the treated area.
Horizontal - sagittal - coronal
Site predisposing to disease
Mobility changes
27. What are the four skin changes that are most often signs of chronic somatic dysfunction?
Musculoskeletal
Batwing deformity
Thinning of skin - smooth shiny appearance - dryness and loss of hair
Forward bending of the lumbar spine
28. Involvement of the greater splanchnic nerves directly modifies what?
At its extremes
Mid-sagittal plane
Sympathetics via celiac plexus
Somato-visceral reflex
29. Straight leg raising is a test for shortening or restriction of ____________
Hamstring muscles
C7-T1
The major motions of the joint.
Sidebent to the left and rotated to the right
30. 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?
Difference in iliac crest heighths
External rotator muscles.
C7-T1
The head of the rib does not articulate with the demifacet of the segment above.
31. A physical finding as 'rotated right' would imply what?
Thoracic pump - resistive duction and muscle energy techniques - cervical soft tissue treatment - manipulation to improve sympathetic vasomotor function.
Right roation is freer than left rotation and left rotation is restricted.
Site predisposing to disease
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
32. The maxilla is considered an...
Unpaired cranial bone
And release force slowly and to avoid rolling the hands over spinous processes.
Mid-sagittal plane
Batwing deformity
33. In testing for adductor muscle shortening or restriction - you would do what?
Somato-visceral reflex
Thoracic pump - resistive duction and muscle energy techniques - cervical soft tissue treatment - manipulation to improve sympathetic vasomotor function.
The major motions of the joint.
Abduct the leg
34. In foot and ankle dysfunction - restriction will generally be found in what?
Re-evaluate diagnosis
For temperature sense
The major motions of the joint.
Negative intrathoracic pressure
35. In testing for adductor muscle contracture - you....
External rotator muscles.
Is stationary relative to the lever though which force is applied
Flex the knee on the thigh
Engaging the barrier - followed by a short - quick thrust
36. In a patient who has a chronic lateral group curve of the thoracic spine - physical findings typically include what?
Facilitation
Hamstring muscles
For temperature sense
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
37. There are 10 gluteal muscles in the hip - seven of them are external rotators and three are internal rotators of the hip. The gluteus medius is part of which group?
Prominence of the concave side transverse processes due to vertebral rotation.
Costo-transverse area
Is stationary relative to the lever though which force is applied
Internal rotator
38. When resting membrane potential of a neuron requires less stimulation to reach the threshold of excitation it is called _____
Facilitation
Flex the knee on the thigh
C7-T1
The major motions of the joint.
39. When flexion or extension is sufficient to localize force to a single segment the vertebrae....
Rotates and sidebends to the same side
Deep sacral suclus left - lubar lateral curve convex left - low iliac crest left.
Cuboid
Site predisposing to disease
40. The resistance to spinal movement observed in joint dysfunctions is...
C7-T1
Different in every plane of motion
At its extremes
At the apex
41. When the resting membrane potential of a neuron requires less stimulation to reach the threshold of excitation - it is called what?
Sympathetics via celiac plexus
Hamstring muscles
Posterior articular facet approximation.
Facilitation
42. What relaxes or stimulates - depending on how it is applied?
Cuboid
Mobility changes
Vertebral body is rotated into the convexity
Soft tissue treatment.
43. Chronic somatic dysfunction is best related to a palpatory finding of what?
Spondylolisthesis
Difference in iliac crest heighths
T10-T11
Firm - fibrotic changes
44. The quick release component of the lymphatic pump technique as it is applied to the chse effects a ___________
Sidebent to the left and rotated to the right
Negative intrathoracic pressure
Cuboid
Internal rotator
45. Palpable tissue change ina spinal segment area relatng to acute viscero somatic reflex is most evident at the _________
Batwing deformity
Costo-transverse area
Somato-visceral reflex
Difference in iliac crest heighths
46. The function of the gastrocnemius-plantaris-soleus muscle comibation is to...
American School of Osteopathy - Kirksville - MO
Batwing deformity
Evert the foot
Anterior to the sacral base
47. What is the manipulative method utilized to assist in the movement of fluids?
Thoracic pump - resistive duction and muscle energy techniques - cervical soft tissue treatment - manipulation to improve sympathetic vasomotor function.
Fascia
External rotator muscles.
Cuboid
48. A projection of the mid-heel line in a normal patient is the same as the what?
Motion in a sagittal plane in relation to a transverse axis.
Hamstring muscles
Unpaired cranial bone
Mid-sagittal plane
49. The major upper abdominal viscera receive their sympathetic efferents via the great splanchnic nerve whose segemnts of origin are
And release force slowly and to avoid rolling the hands over spinous processes.
Firm - fibrotic changes
T5-T9
Horizontal - sagittal - coronal
50. Bilateral spondylolsis of L-5 predisposes to...
For temperature sense
Serve to thelp limit motion at the extremes
Groups
Spondylolisthesis