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