OMM COMAT (questions well answered)
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What is the Spencer Technique used for? - correct answer ✔✔Its used for adhesive capsulitis
What is the order for Spencer Technique? - correct answer ✔✔Extension
Flexion
Circumduction with compression
Circumduction with traction
Abduction
Internal rotation
Pumping
Rib 1-2 what muscle? - correct answer ✔✔Scalenes
Ribs 3-5 what muscles? - correct answer ✔✔Pec Minor
Ribs 2-8 what muscle? - correct answer ✔✔Serratus anterior but more so ribs 6-8
,Ribs 9-12 what muscle? - correct answer ✔✔Latissimus Dorsii
Rib 12? what muscle - correct answer ✔✔Quadratus lumborum
Heel pain indicative of plantar fasciitis would require what treatment? - correct answer ✔✔Arch
supports
Forward sacral torsions will indicate what at L5? - correct answer ✔✔Type 1
Backward sacral torsions will indicate what at L5? - correct answer ✔✔Type 2
Overuse injury to the knee will most likely cause what to be injured? - correct answer
✔✔Patellar tendon
In winging of the scapula, what muscle and what nerve are damaged? - correct answer
✔✔Serratus anterior
Long thoracic nerve
Injury of the axillary nerve is associated with what? - correct answer ✔✔Injury to the surgical
neck of the humerus.
Injury will result in paralysis of the deltoid muscle
Median nerve comes from what nerve roots? - correct answer ✔✔C6, C7, C8 and T1
High median nerve palsy looks like what? - correct answer ✔✔Lesion at the elbow and forearm
areas
,Low median nerve palsy looks like what? - correct answer ✔✔Lesion at the wrist
Phrenic nerve arises from what nerves and innervates? - correct answer ✔✔C3-C5 and
innervates the diaphragm
Spinal accessory nerve innervates what? - correct answer ✔✔The SCM and Trapezius
C5-C6 nerve roots supply what? - correct answer ✔✔Musculocutaneous
Radial, Axillary, suprascapular, superior subscapular and inferior subscapular innervating
muscles in the arm and shoulder girdle.
C4 provides part of the innervation the levator scapulae with the nerve root of C3 and dorsal
scapular nerve C5.
C6-C8 provides nerve roots to what? - correct answer ✔✔Musculocutaneous, median, radial,
and thoracodorsal nerves innervating muscles in the arm, forearm and latissimus dorsii
C7-T1 supplies what? - correct answer ✔✔median, ulnar and radial nerves supplying
innervation to the forearm and hand muscles
What are the VS parasympathetics for the foregut and gut? - correct answer ✔✔C1/C2 to the
right
Esophagus is T3-T6 on the right
Stomach is T5-T10 on the left
Thomas test tests for what? - correct answer ✔✔Iliopsoas hypertonicity
, Cervical diagnosis!!! - correct answer ✔✔Its different than expected for OA- you would have
flexion extension and side bending/rotation opposite not the same. So this is a mixture of type
1 and type 2.
What should always be considered when evaluating a patient for stomach pain and binge
drinking? - correct answer ✔✔Pancreatitis!
Kidney and proximal ureter receive parasympathetic innervation from where? - correct answer
✔✔Vagus nerve with corresponding innervation at C1-C2
What is the Chapman point for Prostate? - correct answer ✔✔Posterior margin of the IT band
Sacral inhibition is needed for what treatment and how is it done? - correct answer ✔✔It can
help for pelvic pain or dysmennorhea
Performed in the prone position with deep pressure applied to the sacrum. Influences S2-S4 via
the pelvic sphlancnic nerves corresponding to the lower GI tract, and pelvic organs except for
the ovaries and testes
First line tx for dysmennorhea? - correct answer ✔✔NSAIDS
A scoliotic curve that is sidebent to the left is called what? - correct answer ✔✔Dextroscoliosis,
b/c the convexity of the curve is to the right
What happens in functional scoliosis? - correct answer ✔✔Spinal curvature corrects with side
bending, rotation or forward bending
latest update to pass
What is the Spencer Technique used for? - correct answer ✔✔Its used for adhesive capsulitis
What is the order for Spencer Technique? - correct answer ✔✔Extension
Flexion
Circumduction with compression
Circumduction with traction
Abduction
Internal rotation
Pumping
Rib 1-2 what muscle? - correct answer ✔✔Scalenes
Ribs 3-5 what muscles? - correct answer ✔✔Pec Minor
Ribs 2-8 what muscle? - correct answer ✔✔Serratus anterior but more so ribs 6-8
,Ribs 9-12 what muscle? - correct answer ✔✔Latissimus Dorsii
Rib 12? what muscle - correct answer ✔✔Quadratus lumborum
Heel pain indicative of plantar fasciitis would require what treatment? - correct answer ✔✔Arch
supports
Forward sacral torsions will indicate what at L5? - correct answer ✔✔Type 1
Backward sacral torsions will indicate what at L5? - correct answer ✔✔Type 2
Overuse injury to the knee will most likely cause what to be injured? - correct answer
✔✔Patellar tendon
In winging of the scapula, what muscle and what nerve are damaged? - correct answer
✔✔Serratus anterior
Long thoracic nerve
Injury of the axillary nerve is associated with what? - correct answer ✔✔Injury to the surgical
neck of the humerus.
Injury will result in paralysis of the deltoid muscle
Median nerve comes from what nerve roots? - correct answer ✔✔C6, C7, C8 and T1
High median nerve palsy looks like what? - correct answer ✔✔Lesion at the elbow and forearm
areas
,Low median nerve palsy looks like what? - correct answer ✔✔Lesion at the wrist
Phrenic nerve arises from what nerves and innervates? - correct answer ✔✔C3-C5 and
innervates the diaphragm
Spinal accessory nerve innervates what? - correct answer ✔✔The SCM and Trapezius
C5-C6 nerve roots supply what? - correct answer ✔✔Musculocutaneous
Radial, Axillary, suprascapular, superior subscapular and inferior subscapular innervating
muscles in the arm and shoulder girdle.
C4 provides part of the innervation the levator scapulae with the nerve root of C3 and dorsal
scapular nerve C5.
C6-C8 provides nerve roots to what? - correct answer ✔✔Musculocutaneous, median, radial,
and thoracodorsal nerves innervating muscles in the arm, forearm and latissimus dorsii
C7-T1 supplies what? - correct answer ✔✔median, ulnar and radial nerves supplying
innervation to the forearm and hand muscles
What are the VS parasympathetics for the foregut and gut? - correct answer ✔✔C1/C2 to the
right
Esophagus is T3-T6 on the right
Stomach is T5-T10 on the left
Thomas test tests for what? - correct answer ✔✔Iliopsoas hypertonicity
, Cervical diagnosis!!! - correct answer ✔✔Its different than expected for OA- you would have
flexion extension and side bending/rotation opposite not the same. So this is a mixture of type
1 and type 2.
What should always be considered when evaluating a patient for stomach pain and binge
drinking? - correct answer ✔✔Pancreatitis!
Kidney and proximal ureter receive parasympathetic innervation from where? - correct answer
✔✔Vagus nerve with corresponding innervation at C1-C2
What is the Chapman point for Prostate? - correct answer ✔✔Posterior margin of the IT band
Sacral inhibition is needed for what treatment and how is it done? - correct answer ✔✔It can
help for pelvic pain or dysmennorhea
Performed in the prone position with deep pressure applied to the sacrum. Influences S2-S4 via
the pelvic sphlancnic nerves corresponding to the lower GI tract, and pelvic organs except for
the ovaries and testes
First line tx for dysmennorhea? - correct answer ✔✔NSAIDS
A scoliotic curve that is sidebent to the left is called what? - correct answer ✔✔Dextroscoliosis,
b/c the convexity of the curve is to the right
What happens in functional scoliosis? - correct answer ✔✔Spinal curvature corrects with side
bending, rotation or forward bending
