NBCE PART 2 – PRACTICES EXAM LATEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
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.
, NBCE PART 2 – PRACTICES EXAM LATEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
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
ANSWERS
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.
, NBCE PART 2 – PRACTICES EXAM LATEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
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
