ORTHOPEDIC TECHNOLOGIST UPDATED 2026
EXAMINERS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Torus fracture - ✔✔cortex buckles but does not break
✔✔Supracondylar fracture - ✔✔located above the level of the condyles and epicondyles
✔✔Osteoblasts - ✔✔bone forming cells
✔✔Osteocytes - ✔✔mature bone cells found in cortical bone
✔✔osteoclasts - ✔✔Bone-destroying cells (break down bone)
✔✔osteoclasis - ✔✔Deliberate fracturing of bone to correct deformity
✔✔carpal bones - ✔✔scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid,
capitate, hamate
✔✔distal carpal bones - ✔✔1. Trapezium
2. Trapezoid
3. Capitate
4. Hamate
, ✔✔proximal carpal bones - ✔✔scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform
✔✔Olecranon Bursitis - ✔✔inflammation of the bursa located over the olecranon
process of the elbow
✔✔Ulnar Nerve Entrapment - ✔✔Compression of the Ulnar Nerve Occurs at cubital
tunnel of proximal ulna or tunnel of guyon in the wrist (pisiform/hamate)
✔✔Monteggia fracture - ✔✔Dislocation of the radial head and fracture of proximal ulna
✔✔Smith's fracture - ✔✔fracture of the distal radius with volar displacement
✔✔Night stick fracture - ✔✔fracture of the ulna shaft
✔✔Navicular Fracture - ✔✔fracture of navicular/scaphoid bone of the wrist. has limited
blood supply so poor healing.
✔✔tufts fracture - ✔✔Fracture of distal phalanx
✔✔Gameskeepers Fracture - ✔✔aka skiers thumb
-- injury to the ulnar collateral ligament (MP joint)
✔✔buttonhole deformity - ✔✔another term for boutonniere deformity
✔✔computed axial tomography - ✔✔imaging procedure using a computer to produce
cross sections along an axis (CT for Short)
✔✔concentric muscle test - ✔✔any contraction, which muscle shortens while tension, is
generated
✔✔conditioned reflex test - ✔✔A habitual response to a particular stimulus
✔✔Cortel Dynamic Traction - ✔✔Traction involving the application of an apparatus to
allow pre-operative stretching of paraspinal tissue
✔✔stasis - ✔✔stopping or decreasing flow in the venous circulation
✔✔Subsidence - ✔✔settling of a prosthetic component
✔✔digastric tendons - ✔✔Tendons in the neck
✔✔brachial plexus - ✔✔Network of Nerves in the neck
EXAMINERS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Torus fracture - ✔✔cortex buckles but does not break
✔✔Supracondylar fracture - ✔✔located above the level of the condyles and epicondyles
✔✔Osteoblasts - ✔✔bone forming cells
✔✔Osteocytes - ✔✔mature bone cells found in cortical bone
✔✔osteoclasts - ✔✔Bone-destroying cells (break down bone)
✔✔osteoclasis - ✔✔Deliberate fracturing of bone to correct deformity
✔✔carpal bones - ✔✔scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid,
capitate, hamate
✔✔distal carpal bones - ✔✔1. Trapezium
2. Trapezoid
3. Capitate
4. Hamate
, ✔✔proximal carpal bones - ✔✔scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform
✔✔Olecranon Bursitis - ✔✔inflammation of the bursa located over the olecranon
process of the elbow
✔✔Ulnar Nerve Entrapment - ✔✔Compression of the Ulnar Nerve Occurs at cubital
tunnel of proximal ulna or tunnel of guyon in the wrist (pisiform/hamate)
✔✔Monteggia fracture - ✔✔Dislocation of the radial head and fracture of proximal ulna
✔✔Smith's fracture - ✔✔fracture of the distal radius with volar displacement
✔✔Night stick fracture - ✔✔fracture of the ulna shaft
✔✔Navicular Fracture - ✔✔fracture of navicular/scaphoid bone of the wrist. has limited
blood supply so poor healing.
✔✔tufts fracture - ✔✔Fracture of distal phalanx
✔✔Gameskeepers Fracture - ✔✔aka skiers thumb
-- injury to the ulnar collateral ligament (MP joint)
✔✔buttonhole deformity - ✔✔another term for boutonniere deformity
✔✔computed axial tomography - ✔✔imaging procedure using a computer to produce
cross sections along an axis (CT for Short)
✔✔concentric muscle test - ✔✔any contraction, which muscle shortens while tension, is
generated
✔✔conditioned reflex test - ✔✔A habitual response to a particular stimulus
✔✔Cortel Dynamic Traction - ✔✔Traction involving the application of an apparatus to
allow pre-operative stretching of paraspinal tissue
✔✔stasis - ✔✔stopping or decreasing flow in the venous circulation
✔✔Subsidence - ✔✔settling of a prosthetic component
✔✔digastric tendons - ✔✔Tendons in the neck
✔✔brachial plexus - ✔✔Network of Nerves in the neck
