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| Preform Maximum Cervical Compression test |
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| patient actively flexes chin to their chest rotates to shoulder and extends the head back |
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| Positive finding of maximum cervical compression test |
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| Indication of maximum cervical compression test |
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Pain on convex- muscle strain
Pain on concave- N root, facet |
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| Preform Foraminal compresson |
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| 3 different spots: straight ahead, look left, look right and press down on each one |
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| Positive finding for foraminal compression |
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| Indication for foraminal compression |
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local pain- foraminal encroachment
Radicular pain- n root |
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| Preform Jacksons compression |
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| Turn head laterally with slight lateral bending and press down |
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| Positive for Jacksons compression |
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| Indication for Jacksons compression |
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| Preform cervical distraction |
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| hands under the occiput and lift up |
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| + of cervical distraction |
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| relief of pain indicates nerve root compression, IVF encroachment |
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| push down on the shoulder and distract the head slightly away |
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| dural sleeve adhesion, N root |
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| patient is supine and put hand on sternum and pull up on the patients head |
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| Pain indicates vertebral fx, meningeal irritation |
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| Patient is seated and passively flex head to chest |
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| sharp radiating pain indicates meningeal irritation, myelopathy |
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| Resisted ROM then Passive ROM |
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Pain on active: m strain
Pain on Passive: ligament sprain |
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| patient puts their hand out and the doctor flicks down on the fingers |
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| Fingers curl indicates UMNL |
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| ask patient if they have had pain with using the bathroom, coughing, etc |
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| radicular pain indicates SOL |
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| patient places hand on the head |
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| relief of pain indicates brachial plexus or nerve root |
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| patient places hand on head and it causes pain |
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| Increased pain indicates TOS |
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| take the patients pulse and have them look away |
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| Diminished pulse indicates TOS |
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| take the patients pulse and have them look up and back and take a deep breath |
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| loss of pulse indicates TOS |
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| pull down on patients arm while they look up |
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| loss of pulse when the patient looks up indicates TOS |
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| take pulse of both arms and pull back |
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| loss of pulse indicates TOS |
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| Wrights hyperabduction test |
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Definition
| Take pulse of one arm while raising it overhead then take the pulse of the other arm and compare bilaterally |
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| + wrights hyperabduction test |
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Definition
| Diminished pulse at uneven levels indicates TOS |
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| patients holds both arms overhead for 3 min and pumps their hands |
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| reproduction of symptoms or unable to preform for 3 min indicates TOS (watch 30s-1min) |
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| view the patients spine as they bend foreword |
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If the scoliosis stays it is structural
If the scoliosis improves it is functional |
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| Ask the patient standing to keep arm straight and bend down one side |
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| decreased ROM to one side is a structural scoliosis |
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| palpate the spinous and the paraspinals and then use the 128 tuning fork and put it over the spinous process and the paraspinals |
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Pain local: fracture
Radicular pain: disc |
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| palpate the spinous process and the paraspinals and have the patient cross arms across eachother and lean over |
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Local pain: fracture
Radicular pain: disc |
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| explain to the patient that you are going to be putting a measuring tape around them just below the nipple/bra line instruct them to breath in and then let the air out. |
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| if the measurement is less than 1.5-3 inches it is indicative of AS |
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| patient is prone and they place hands on their low back and lift their torso off the bench |
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| kyphosis that stays on extension indicates structural kyphosis |
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| umbilicus moves superior indicates a spinal cord lesion at T10 |
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| patient lays supine or on their side and asked to get up |
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Definition
| pain where they cant get up indicates AS, sprain, disc |
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| doc places hands on the patients low back, the patient with hands by their sides tries to lean over bilaterally |
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| ipsilateral contraction of the paraspinals indicates AS |
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| patient is seated and they raise their hands above their head and try to lean to one side and then the other |
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pain on the concave side indicates intercostal neuritis
pain on the convex side indicates myofascitis, pleurisy |
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| patient preforms adams then ask patient for permission to put hip against low back. patient with support leans over |
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pain improves- pelvis
pain on second move- lumbar |
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| patient walks on their heels |
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| weakness L4/L5 nerve root involvement |
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| pateitn walks on their toes |
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| weakness indicates S1 nerve root |
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| radicular pain indicates nerve root or disc herniation |
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| patient lifts one leg off table with resistance then lifts other off the table with resistance and tries to lift both off with resistance |
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| nerve root, disc, sciatica |
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| pain is indicative of pyelonephritis |
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pain 0-30: N Root
30-60: SI
>60: lumbosacral |
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| raise the good side and then decrease and dorsiflex the foot |
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| pain in bad leg indicate nerve root, disc, sciatica |
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| raise the affected leg and bring below pain and dorsiflex the foot |
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| pain indicates nerve root or sciatica |
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| raise the affected leg to pain and decrease and dorsiflex the toe |
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| dorsiflex the toe without SLR indicates sciatic, disc, arthritis |
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