Spinal Anatomy
The neck region of the spine, containing seven vertebrae labeled C1 through C7.
What is the cervical spine?
The clinical terms for lying face up and lying face down.
What are supine and prone?
The specific medical terms for neck pain and low back pain.
What are cervicalgia and lumbalgia?
Examination by touch to assess spinal structures, tenderness, swelling, or movement.
What is palpation?
The clinic shorthand "BROF" stands for this.
Brief Report of Findings.
These two specific vertebrae are labeled C1 and C2; they support the head and help it turn.
What are the atlas and axis?
Side bending of the neck or trunk.
What is lateral flexion?
An abnormal sensation such as tingling or "pins and needles."
A muscle group mainly supplied by a single spinal nerve root.
What is a myotome?
The clinical record acronym organized into Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan.
What is a SOAP note?
The tough outer ring and the softer, gel-like center of an intervertebral disc.
What are the annulus fibrosus and nucleus pulposus?
The normal inward curve of the cervical or lumbar spine.
What is lordosis?
A symptom pattern of pain traveling into the buttock and leg, often related to lower spinal nerve root irriation.
What is sciatica?
Subjective information is what the patient reports; this information is what the clinician observes or measures.
What is a objective?
ADLs include dressing, bathing, and other routine personal tasks. It is also known as this.
What are activities of daily living?
The triangular bone below the lumbar spine that is formed from entirely fused vertebrae.
What is the sacrum?
Movement away from, and toward, the body's midline.
What are abduction and adduction?
Pain felt in a location different from its source that doesn't necessarily indicate nerve root damage.
What is referred pain?
An examination maneuver that may help assess irritation of lower spinal nerve roots by raising the patient's leg.
What is a straight leg raise?
Dx refers to the clinician's identification of a condition. This as a code represents it in the record or claim.
What is diagnosis?
The triangular bone below the lumbar spine that is formed from entirely fused vertebrae.
What is the intervertebral foramen?
Directional terms meaning closer to, and farther from, the trunk or a structure's point of origin.
What are proximal and distal?
Nerve root dysfunction that may cause weakness, sensory loss, or altered reflexes.
What is radiculopathy?
Radiographic views where AP stands for front-to-back projection, and this term stands for a side projection.
What is lateral?
You should confirm the intending meaning between DC and D/C as there are two separate things these refer to.
What is Doctor of Chiropractic and discharge/discontinue?