NBCE - Chiropractic Boards Pt 2 –
Practices
1. What is the reference structure of the vertebrae unless otherwise noted? ...Answer
Is...vertebral body
2. What side of the segment do you contact assuming no scoliosis is present? ...Answer Is...open
wedge
3. If scoliosis is present what side of segment do you contact? ...Answer Is...convexity
4. If there is a scoliosis the doctor stands on which side? ...Answer Is...convexity
5. Doctor contacts the side they are standing on when a patient is supine or prone. T or
F? ...Answer Is...True
6. What is a fixed segment? ...Answer Is...stuck
7. What is a restricted or decrease segment? ...Answer Is...segment can't move there
8. What is malposition? ...Answer Is...fixated
9. In the cervical spine, with patient supine. How should position the neck? ...Answer
Is...Laterally flex over your contact and rotate head away.
10. Define: Flexion Malposition ...Answer Is...Increased interspinous space between the involved
segment and the segment below with a decreased interspinous space between the involved
segment and the segment above.
, 11. Define: Extension Malposition ...Answer Is...Decreased interspinous space between the
involved segment and the segment below with an increased interspinous space between the
involved segment and the segment above.
12. Hypomobility ...Answer Is...Decreased motion or segmental fixation.
13. Hypermobility ...Answer Is...Loosened motor unit
14. What is a segment or group of segments that move in an inconsistent manner in the
corresponding area? ...Answer Is...aberrant motion
15. What is a scoliosis and/or alteration of curve secondary to muscular imbalance? ...Answer
Is...sectional intersegmental
16. What is costovertebral or costotransverse disrelationship/sacroiliac subluxation characterized
as? ...Answer Is...paraspinal
17. In Gonstead the first letter of the listing always begins with what letter? ...Answer Is...P
18. The first letter in the Gonstead listing refers to what? ...Answer Is...Posterior
19. The Gonstead listing is based on what anatomical structure? ...Answer Is...spinous process
20. The second letter of the Gonstead listing refers to what movement? ...Answer Is...spinous
rotation
21. What are the two options for the second letter in the Gonstead listing? ...Answer Is...R or L
22. What does the third letter in the Gonstead listing refer to? ...Answer Is...lateral flexion or
wedging on the side of spinous rotation
Practices
1. What is the reference structure of the vertebrae unless otherwise noted? ...Answer
Is...vertebral body
2. What side of the segment do you contact assuming no scoliosis is present? ...Answer Is...open
wedge
3. If scoliosis is present what side of segment do you contact? ...Answer Is...convexity
4. If there is a scoliosis the doctor stands on which side? ...Answer Is...convexity
5. Doctor contacts the side they are standing on when a patient is supine or prone. T or
F? ...Answer Is...True
6. What is a fixed segment? ...Answer Is...stuck
7. What is a restricted or decrease segment? ...Answer Is...segment can't move there
8. What is malposition? ...Answer Is...fixated
9. In the cervical spine, with patient supine. How should position the neck? ...Answer
Is...Laterally flex over your contact and rotate head away.
10. Define: Flexion Malposition ...Answer Is...Increased interspinous space between the involved
segment and the segment below with a decreased interspinous space between the involved
segment and the segment above.
, 11. Define: Extension Malposition ...Answer Is...Decreased interspinous space between the
involved segment and the segment below with an increased interspinous space between the
involved segment and the segment above.
12. Hypomobility ...Answer Is...Decreased motion or segmental fixation.
13. Hypermobility ...Answer Is...Loosened motor unit
14. What is a segment or group of segments that move in an inconsistent manner in the
corresponding area? ...Answer Is...aberrant motion
15. What is a scoliosis and/or alteration of curve secondary to muscular imbalance? ...Answer
Is...sectional intersegmental
16. What is costovertebral or costotransverse disrelationship/sacroiliac subluxation characterized
as? ...Answer Is...paraspinal
17. In Gonstead the first letter of the listing always begins with what letter? ...Answer Is...P
18. The first letter in the Gonstead listing refers to what? ...Answer Is...Posterior
19. The Gonstead listing is based on what anatomical structure? ...Answer Is...spinous process
20. The second letter of the Gonstead listing refers to what movement? ...Answer Is...spinous
rotation
21. What are the two options for the second letter in the Gonstead listing? ...Answer Is...R or L
22. What does the third letter in the Gonstead listing refer to? ...Answer Is...lateral flexion or
wedging on the side of spinous rotation
