NBCE - Chiropractic Boards Pt 2 - Practices Exam Solved 100%

What is the reference structure of the vertebrae unless otherwise noted? - Answer vertebral body What side of the segment do you contact assuming no scoliosis is present? - Answer open wedge If scoliosis is present what side of segment do you contact? - Answer convexity If there is a scoliosis the doctor stands on which side? - Answer convexity Doctor contacts the side they are standing on when a patient is supine or prone. T or F? - Answer True What is a fixed segment? - Answer stuck What is a restricted or decrease segment? - Answer segment can't move there What is malposition? - Answer fixated In the cervical spine, with patient supine. How should position the neck? - Answer Laterally flex over your contact and rotate head away. Define: Flexion Malposition - Answer 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 - Answer 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 - Answer Decreased motion or segmental fixation. Hypermobility - Answer Loosened motor unit What is a segment or group of segments that move in an inconsistent manner in the corresponding area? - Answer aberrant motion What is a scoliosis and/or alteration of curve secondary to muscular imbalance? - Answer sectional intersegmental What is costovertebral or costotransverse disrelationship/sacroiliac subluxation characterized as? - Answer paraspinal In Gonstead the first letter of the listing always begins with what letter? - Answer P The first letter in the Gonstead listing refers to what? - Answer Posterior The Gonstead listing is based on what anatomical structure? - Answer spinous process The second letter of the Gonstead listing refers to what movement? - Answer spinous rotation What are the two options for the second letter in the Gonstead listing? - Answer R or L What does the third letter in the Gonstead listing refer to? - Answer lateral flexion or wedging on the side of spinous rotation What are the two options for the third letter of the Gonstead system? - Answer S or I What type of torque is used to correct the open wedge? - Answer Clockwise or Counterclockwise torque Generally Gonstead will contact which side of the wedge? - Answer open wedge What does Gonstead classify as "special listings"? - Answer -Sp(spinous), -La(lamina), -Tp(transverse process), -M(mammillary) What anatomical structure does the National Listing System use as a reference? - Answer body What is the first letter in the national listing system referring? - Answer body rotation What are the two options for the first letter in the national listing system? - Answer R or L