PA BOARDS
MUSCULOSKELETAL/RHEYMATOLOG
Y CHEAT SHEET. EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Abducted, externally rotated. Axillary nerve affected - ANS Anterior Shoulder Dislocation
Adducted, internally rotated. Electrical injury, lightning, seizure - ANS Posterior Shoulder
Dislocation
Empty can test - ANS Rotator Cuff Tear
Wrist drop (radial nerve) - ANS Mid-Shaft Humerus Fracture
Middle third most commonly affected. Treat with sling - ANS Clavicle Fracture
Children. Median nerve and brachial artery affected. Anterior sail and posterior fat pad sign.
Gun stock deformity. Volkmann's contracture - ANS Supracondylar Fracture
Posterior dislocation most
common - ANS Elbow Dislocation
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, Fall to outstretched hand. Snuffbox tenderness. Thumb spica splint - ANS Scaphoid Fracture
Median nerve. Phalen Sign. Tinel
Sign. Compression test. Thenar eminence atrophy - ANS Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
5th metacarpal fracture. Ulnar
gutter splint - ANS Boxer Fracture
Pregnancy. Finkelstein test - ANS De Quervain Tenosynovitis
Smoking, decreased FEV1 - ANS Chronic Bronchitis
Young male, HLA B27, Bamboo
sign - ANS Ankylosing spondylitis
Bowel/bladder incontinence, saddle paresthesia - ANS Cauda Equina
Shopping cart sign (pain relieved with forward bending) - ANS Spinal Stenosis
Femoral neck fracture, limp, frog leg lateral X-ray - ANS Avascular Necrosis
Knee pain, avascular necrosis of hip - ANS Legg-Calve-Perthes
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MUSCULOSKELETAL/RHEYMATOLOG
Y CHEAT SHEET. EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Abducted, externally rotated. Axillary nerve affected - ANS Anterior Shoulder Dislocation
Adducted, internally rotated. Electrical injury, lightning, seizure - ANS Posterior Shoulder
Dislocation
Empty can test - ANS Rotator Cuff Tear
Wrist drop (radial nerve) - ANS Mid-Shaft Humerus Fracture
Middle third most commonly affected. Treat with sling - ANS Clavicle Fracture
Children. Median nerve and brachial artery affected. Anterior sail and posterior fat pad sign.
Gun stock deformity. Volkmann's contracture - ANS Supracondylar Fracture
Posterior dislocation most
common - ANS Elbow Dislocation
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, Fall to outstretched hand. Snuffbox tenderness. Thumb spica splint - ANS Scaphoid Fracture
Median nerve. Phalen Sign. Tinel
Sign. Compression test. Thenar eminence atrophy - ANS Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
5th metacarpal fracture. Ulnar
gutter splint - ANS Boxer Fracture
Pregnancy. Finkelstein test - ANS De Quervain Tenosynovitis
Smoking, decreased FEV1 - ANS Chronic Bronchitis
Young male, HLA B27, Bamboo
sign - ANS Ankylosing spondylitis
Bowel/bladder incontinence, saddle paresthesia - ANS Cauda Equina
Shopping cart sign (pain relieved with forward bending) - ANS Spinal Stenosis
Femoral neck fracture, limp, frog leg lateral X-ray - ANS Avascular Necrosis
Knee pain, avascular necrosis of hip - ANS Legg-Calve-Perthes
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