NBCE - Part 2 – Practices Exam Questions with Complete Solutions

NBCE - Part 2 – Practices Exam Questions with Complete Solutions 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. 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