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| How many bones make up the skull? |
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| How many bones make up the Vertebral Column? |
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| How many bones make up the thoracic cage? |
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| joints that unite the skull bones |
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| sign of parkinsons disease where when you tap on the glabella and the person continues blinking tap after tap instead of stopping after the first one |
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AKA: lingual bone
- does not directly articulate with any other bone
- u-shaped and lies inferior to mandible
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| What are the funtions of the vertebral column? |
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- encloses and protects the spinal cord
- supports the skull
- supports the weight of the head, neck, and trunk
- transfers weight to the lower limbs
- helps maintain the upright position of the body
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| How many bones are in the cervical spine? |
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| How many bones make up the thoracic spine? |
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| How many bones make up the lumbar spine? |
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| What do spinal curves do? |
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they are weight transferring and absorb shock! |
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| Primary curves/ Accomodation curves |
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| the posteriorly sweeping curves of the thoracic and sacral regions |
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| overly arched kyphotic curve (thoracic) |
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- osteochondrosis- disease of the joints
- blood supply is cut off
- vertebrae grow unevenly
- genetic
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| Secondary curves/Compensation curves |
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| develop in the infant and toddler as anteriorly sweeping curve of the cervical and lumbar regions |
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exaggerated lumbar curve
"bubble butt"
[image] |
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| What spinal curves develop as a baby lifts its head? |
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| What spinal curve develops as infants learn to walk? |
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| slippage of one vertebrae over the top of the inferior vertebrae |
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| What are some causes of Spondylolisthesis? |
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- congenital: present since birth
- childhood injury
- disc and facet degeneration
- pars interarticularis fracture
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| break in the pars interarticularis |
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- seperate vertebral bodies
- fibrocartilage pads
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| jelly-like substance in the middle of the spinal disc |
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| outer portion of intervertebral disc |
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[image]
when annulus pulposis ruptures and the vertebrae presses on the nerves |
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- have transverse foramina
- smallest
- most superior
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- 1st cervical vertebrae
- has no body and articulates with the occipital condyles
- allows one to shake head yes
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- 2nd cervical vertebrae
- a large superior projection of the body called the dens (or odontoid process)
- the articulation between the axis and atlas allows one to shake their head NO!
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| Hangman's/Jefferson Fracture |
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- four part break of atlas
- diving into shallow water
- impact against the roof of a vehicle[image]
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- C7
- the last cervical vertebrae
- long slender spinous process
- ligamentum nuchae extends from the spinous process to occipital crest
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- damage to the ligamentum nuchae
- acceleration flexion-extension neck injury neck injury
- soft tissue cervical hyperextension injury
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| non-fusion of the first and second segments of the sacrum-->therefore lumbar spine appears to have 6 vertebrae |
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| How many fused vertebrae make up the sacrum? |
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| How many fused vertebrae make up the coccyx? |
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| What are the 2 main functions of the thoracic cage? |
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- protects the heart, lungs, thymus and other structures
- serves as attachment sight for muscles involved in: respiration, position spine, movements of pectoral girdle and upper limbs
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- true ribs
- the first 7 pairs
- connect to sternum by individual costal cartilages
- true ribs increase in size inferiorly
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- False ribs (pairs 8-12)
- false ribs do not attach directly to the sternum
- 8-10 attach to a common costal cartilage
- 11-12 are floating ribs
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| What are the 3 parts of the sternum? |
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- Manubrium
- Body of Sternum
- Xiphoid Process
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| the diaphragm and rectus abdominus muscles attach here |
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