Clin Ortho Lab Exam Questions
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Quiz Dejerines Sign/Triad
ANS: Patient is seated
Doctor instructs the patient to cough, sneeze, and then bear down.
Classical response: increase in radicular symptomology
Classical Importance= Increase in intrathecal pressure aggravates a discal lesion
Test is done midline
Quiz Distraction Test
ANS: Patient is seated
Doctor places hand either under the occiput/chin or places thumbs on the occiput
and cups around the ears but not over the ears
-Doctor axially distracts upwards
,-Classical response: Relief of radicular pain
-Classical importance: removal of discal pressure
-Test is done midline
Quiz Extension Compression Test
ANS: -Patient is seated
-Doctor stands behind the patient
-Doctor asks patient to extend head 30* degrees
-Doctor places both hands on the patients forehaead and axially compresses on
the plane of cerivcal articular pillars
-Classical response - Decrease in radicular pain
-Classical importance = discal dz (disc being pushed anterior ward)
Test is done midline
Quiz Flexion compression Test
ANS: Patient is seated
Doctor stands behind the patient
-Doctor asks the patient to flex their head
-Doctor places both hands on the top of the patient's head and axially compresses
along the plane of the cervical articular pillars
,-Classical Response: Increase in radicular pain
-Classical Importance = Disc dz (dis being push posteriorward)
Test is done midline
Quiz Foraminal Compression Test
ANS: Patient it seated
Doctor stands behind the patient
Patients head is in neutral position
Doctor places their hands upon the top of the patients head and axially
compresses along t he plane of the cervical articular pillars
Classical response = Increase in radicular pain
Classical importance = Discal dz
Test is done midline
Quiz Jackson's Compression Test
ANS: -Patient is seated
-Doctor stands behind the patient
-Doctor laterally flexes the patient's head towards one side
-Doctor places their hands on top of the patient's head and axially compresses
along the plane of the cervical articular pillars
, -Classical response: Increase in radicular pain on side of lateral flexion
-Classical importance = IVF encroachment
-Test is done bilaterally
Quiz Spinous Percussion Test (Cervical)
ANS: -Patient is seated
-Doctor instructs the patient to flex their head forward
-Doctor either stands behind patient or to their side
-Doctor palpatest the cervical spinous processes and marks them with a grease
pencil
-Doctor then percusses 1'' laterally to the marked spoinous processes in the area
of the soft paraspinal tissue
-Classical response: localized pain in the affected spinous process
-Classical importance = Fracture
-Test is considered a midline test and a bilateral test
Quiz Tuning Fork Test
ANS: Patient is seated
Doctor palpates all of the cerivcal spinous processes an marks them with a grease
pencil
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Quiz Dejerines Sign/Triad
ANS: Patient is seated
Doctor instructs the patient to cough, sneeze, and then bear down.
Classical response: increase in radicular symptomology
Classical Importance= Increase in intrathecal pressure aggravates a discal lesion
Test is done midline
Quiz Distraction Test
ANS: Patient is seated
Doctor places hand either under the occiput/chin or places thumbs on the occiput
and cups around the ears but not over the ears
-Doctor axially distracts upwards
,-Classical response: Relief of radicular pain
-Classical importance: removal of discal pressure
-Test is done midline
Quiz Extension Compression Test
ANS: -Patient is seated
-Doctor stands behind the patient
-Doctor asks patient to extend head 30* degrees
-Doctor places both hands on the patients forehaead and axially compresses on
the plane of cerivcal articular pillars
-Classical response - Decrease in radicular pain
-Classical importance = discal dz (disc being pushed anterior ward)
Test is done midline
Quiz Flexion compression Test
ANS: Patient is seated
Doctor stands behind the patient
-Doctor asks the patient to flex their head
-Doctor places both hands on the top of the patient's head and axially compresses
along the plane of the cervical articular pillars
,-Classical Response: Increase in radicular pain
-Classical Importance = Disc dz (dis being push posteriorward)
Test is done midline
Quiz Foraminal Compression Test
ANS: Patient it seated
Doctor stands behind the patient
Patients head is in neutral position
Doctor places their hands upon the top of the patients head and axially
compresses along t he plane of the cervical articular pillars
Classical response = Increase in radicular pain
Classical importance = Discal dz
Test is done midline
Quiz Jackson's Compression Test
ANS: -Patient is seated
-Doctor stands behind the patient
-Doctor laterally flexes the patient's head towards one side
-Doctor places their hands on top of the patient's head and axially compresses
along the plane of the cervical articular pillars
, -Classical response: Increase in radicular pain on side of lateral flexion
-Classical importance = IVF encroachment
-Test is done bilaterally
Quiz Spinous Percussion Test (Cervical)
ANS: -Patient is seated
-Doctor instructs the patient to flex their head forward
-Doctor either stands behind patient or to their side
-Doctor palpatest the cervical spinous processes and marks them with a grease
pencil
-Doctor then percusses 1'' laterally to the marked spoinous processes in the area
of the soft paraspinal tissue
-Classical response: localized pain in the affected spinous process
-Classical importance = Fracture
-Test is considered a midline test and a bilateral test
Quiz Tuning Fork Test
ANS: Patient is seated
Doctor palpates all of the cerivcal spinous processes an marks them with a grease
pencil
