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