Test your basic knowledge |

Osteopathic Principles

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Psoas major is responsible for...






2. When flexion or extension is sufficient to localize force to a single segment the vertebrae....






3. In the lumbar spine - an increased lumbosacral angel is associated with a...






4. Why is the first rib not classified as a typical rib?






5. Somatic dysfunction of the sacroiliac functional untis can produce symtoms of dysmenorrhea. This relationship is an example of a






6. Andrew Taylor Still was






7. In the standing position a test which gives a high degree of reliability for determing an anatomical short leg is...






8. Proprioceptive impulses which may be responsible for the facilitated segment do not come from where?






9. The ligaments of the vertebral column...






10. The major upper abdominal viscera receive their sympathetic efferents via the great splanchnic nerve whose segemnts of origin are






11. What is the primary mechanism responsible for the maintenace of skeletal muscle tone?






12. Chronic somatic dysfunction is best related to a palpatory finding of what?






13. What is the arterial supply network to the major nerve trunks and their branches?






14. Somatic dysfunction of the midthoracic spine can cause gastrointestinal symptoms. This is an example of ________






15. The maxilla is considered an...






16. What is the term for a congential enlargement of the transverse processes?






17. The first professional organized school of Osteopathy.






18. Intervertebral somatic dysfunction is named for what?






19. The assessment of spinous processes is very useful in determining what?






20. In testing for adductor muscle shortening or restriction - you would do what?






21. When the resting membrane potential of a neuron requires less stimulation to reach the threshold of excitation - it is called what?






22. When the spine is in neutral and side bending is introduced - the segments move in ______.






23. The best criterion of successful therapeutic application of a direct trust technique is determined by what?






24. Involvement of the greater splanchnic nerves directly modifies the....






25. Existence of somatic dysfunction is clinically significant because it is...






26. 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?






27. In applying stretching to the thoracic paravertebral muscles - care must be taken to introduce ________________.






28. 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______






29. Bilateral spondylolsis of L-5 predisposes to...






30. Straight leg raising is a test for shortening or restriction of ____________






31. When resting membrane potential of a neuron requires less stimulation to reach the threshold of excitation it is called _____






32. The resistance to spinal movement observed in joint dysfunctions is...






33. Most reliable palpatory finding of a suspected disease process.






34. Involvement of the greater splanchnic nerves directly modifies what?






35. Osteopathic manipulative treatment is to be done how?






36. What are the four skin changes that are most often signs of chronic somatic dysfunction?






37. The ligaments of the vertebral column serve to help limit motion where?






38. 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?






39. The function of the gastrocnemius-plantaris-soleus muscle comibation is to...






40. Intervertebral somatic dysfunctions is named for the upper in relation to what?






41. In a patient who has a chronic lateral group curve of the thoracic spine - physical findings typically include what?






42. A fulcrum and/or axis






43. In lateral curves - the maximal rotation will occur where?






44. In testing for adductor muscle contracture - you....






45. A physical finding as 'rotated right' would imply what?






46. The quick release component of the lymphatic pump technique as it is applied to the chse effects a ___________






47. Flexion-extension is...






48. A projection of the mid-heel line in a normal patient is the same as the what?






49. The three cardinal (standard) planes of reference for the body are the....






50. Typical accomodation to an anatomically short left leg would be expected to be associated with what?