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What type of pain involves the nerve root?
Radicular
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What type of pain involves a nerve?
radiating
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What does a herniated nucleus pulpose (HNP) affect?
nerve root (radicular)
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What will fail first under extreme axial loading?
vertebral end plate
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What fails during flexion loading?
posterior annulus fibrosus
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What is used to centralize the nucleus pulposis?
passive extension
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what type of force reproduces pain in canal stenosis?
shearing force
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what is associated with fracture of pars interarticularis?
spondylolistesis
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What is prone to fracture in a patient with hypolordosis?
vertebral endplate
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what is caused by hyperlordosis?
pressure of facetts, ligaments, tendons
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What can aggravate someone with SI dysfunction?
- compression and shearing
- hurts when returning to erect position
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in what percent of of the population does the sciatic nerve pierce the piriformis?
15%
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What can be used to diagnosis piriformis syndrome?
straight leg raise with external rotation
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What is an inflammatory fusion of a spinal motion segment?
ankylosing spondylitis
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What are the four areas of TOS testing?
- sternocostovertebral
- scalene triangle
- costoclavicular
- coracopectoral
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What type of motion causes compression in scalene triangle?
head movments
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what type of motion causes compression in costoclavicular area?
- extension w/ external rotation
- abduction w/ external rotation
- Downward traction
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what type of motion causes compression in coroacopectoral area?
hyperabduction
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what is the force affecting direction of rotation?
effort force
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what is the force opposing force torque?
resistance force
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what is the distance between fulcrum and EF?
effort arm
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what is the distance between fulcrum and RF?
resistance arm
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what is the most common relationship between RA and EA?
RA>EA
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what is the location of the center of gravity in a standing individual?
4cm anterior to S1
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what type of force is resisted by by the vertebral body?
compression
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what forces are affected by pedicles?
bending forces
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what type of force is resisted by the Z joints?
sheer, compressing, tensile, torsional
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what forces are resisted by annulus fibrosis?
shear, tensile, torsional
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What nerve innervates the outer third of the IVD?
sinuvertebral
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what motions are resisted in the cervical region?
- rotation
- lateral bending
- some flexion and extension
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what type of motion is resisted in the lumbar region?
rotation and flexion
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what area of the spine has the highest and lowest disk to vertebral body height?
- Highest = Cervical
- Lowest = Thoracic
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