NBCE - Chiropractic Boards Pt 2 – Practices| questions| with answers

What is the reference structure of the vertebrae unless otherwise noted? CORRECT ANSWERS: vertebral body What side of the segment do you contact assuming no scoliosis is present? CORRECT ANSWERS: open wedge If scoliosis is present what side of segment do you contact? CORRECT ANSWERS: convexity If there is a scoliosis the doctor stands on which side? CORRECT ANSWERS: convexity Doctor contacts the side they are standing on when a patient is supine or prone. T or F? CORRECT ANSWERS: True What is a fixed segment? CORRECT ANSWERS: stuck What is a restricted or decrease segment? CORRECT ANSWERS: segment can't move there What is malposition? CORRECT ANSWERS: fixated In the cervical spine, with patient supine. How should position the neck? CORRECT ANSWERS: Laterally flex over your contact and rotate head away. Define: Flexion Malposition CORRECT ANSWERS: Increased interspinous space between the involved segment and the segment below with a decreased interspinous space between the involved segment and the segment above. Define: Extension Malposition CORRECT ANSWERS: Decreased interspinous space between the involved segment and the segment below with an increased interspinous space between the involved segment and the segment above. Hypomobility CORRECT ANSWERS: Decreased motion or segmental fixation. Hypermobility CORRECT ANSWERS: Loosened motor unit What is a segment or group of segments that move in an inconsistent manner in the corresponding area? CORRECT ANSWERS: aberrant motion What is a scoliosis and/or alteration of curve secondary to muscular imbalance? CORRECT ANSWERS: sectional intersegmental What is costovertebral or costotransverse disrelationship/sacroiliac subluxation characterized as? CORRECT ANSWERS: paraspinal