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NWHSU NMS - Cervical & Thoracic
Orthos Questions and Answers
(100% Pass)
O'Donoghue
✓ Strain: isometric pain
✓ Sprain: Passive end range pain
Max Cervical Compression
✓ Extension/Lat flex
✓
✓ -Strain if on open side
✓ -nerve root or facet if closed side
Foraminal compression (Spurling's) test
✓ Lateral Flexion compression S-I
✓
✓ -Radiating pain into arm same side, nerve root, discs, osteophytes,
fracture, etc...
Modified Spurling's
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✓ Extension + Lateral flexion, Compress S-I
✓
✓ Pain, nerve root, radiculopathy
Upper limb tension test (ULTTs): Median Nerve
✓ Reproduce patient symptoms w/ median nerve entrapment (C5-7)
Distraction Test
✓ Occipital lifting I-S
✓
✓ Relief: IVF compression, facet capsulitis, foraminal compression
✓
✓ Increased pain: Muscle spasm
Cervical Radiculopathy 4 most reliable tests in combination
✓ Spurlings
✓ ULTT
✓ Distraction
✓ < 60 degrees of cervical rotation to involved side
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NWHSU NMS - Cervical & Thoracic
Orthos Questions and Answers
(100% Pass)
O'Donoghue
✓ Strain: isometric pain
✓ Sprain: Passive end range pain
Max Cervical Compression
✓ Extension/Lat flex
✓
✓ -Strain if on open side
✓ -nerve root or facet if closed side
Foraminal compression (Spurling's) test
✓ Lateral Flexion compression S-I
✓
✓ -Radiating pain into arm same side, nerve root, discs, osteophytes,
fracture, etc...
Modified Spurling's
Master01 | October, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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✓ Extension + Lateral flexion, Compress S-I
✓
✓ Pain, nerve root, radiculopathy
Upper limb tension test (ULTTs): Median Nerve
✓ Reproduce patient symptoms w/ median nerve entrapment (C5-7)
Distraction Test
✓ Occipital lifting I-S
✓
✓ Relief: IVF compression, facet capsulitis, foraminal compression
✓
✓ Increased pain: Muscle spasm
Cervical Radiculopathy 4 most reliable tests in combination
✓ Spurlings
✓ ULTT
✓ Distraction
✓ < 60 degrees of cervical rotation to involved side
Master01 | October, 2024/2025 | Latest update
