MMT
The grade given when no movement is noted but some muscle activity is noted in the anterior neck when the patient is asked to lift their forehead towards the ceiling.
What is 1/5?
The cartilaginous covering of vertebral bodies that provides nutrition to the disc.
What are vertebral end plates?
The sensation of spinning or moving (of self or environment).
What is vertigo?
What is balance?
The pelvic alignment described when your "pelvic bowl" spills posteriorly (ASISs move superiorly and posteriorly).
What is posterior pelvic tilt?
What is the SCM?
The normal curvature in the thoracic spine.
The names of the 2 otolith organs.
What are the utricle and the saccule?
The involuntary jumping of the eyes (up and down/side to side/around).
What is nystagmus?
An abnormal lateral curvature in the spine.
What is scoliosis?
The movement or muscles being tested when asking a patient to bring shoulder to the opposite hip in a suping position.
What is thoracolumbar rotation? What is trunk rotation? What are internal/external obliques?
What is peripheralization?
The type of information provided by the semicircular canals.
What is angular acceleration?
The strategy used for larger perturbations, which require large muscles of the upper body and lower body to move in opposite directions.
What is hip strategy?
When thinking about the Line of Gravity (when drawing a plumb line in the lateral view), it would fall __________ to the center of the knee.
What is posterior?
The UE extremity positioning for a grade 4/5 for trunk (thoracolumbar) extension.
What is arms folded behind low back?
A chronic progressive inflammatory arthritis that can lead to ossification of the spine and fusion of the joints.
What is ankylosing spondylitis?
The neck reflex used to stabilize the head and keep it upright.
What is the vestibulocollic reflex (VCR)
A disorder that affects balance, described as a demyelination disorder, often displaying signs and symptoms of vertigo, nystagmus, weak and uncoordinated movements, and poor motor control.
What is multiple sclerosis?
The postural abnormality characterized by a posterior pelvic tilt, forward shifted pelvis (hips in front of ankles), an increased longer thoracic kyphosis and a possible shorter lumbar lordosis.
What is swayback?
The degrees when lumbar stability is lost for a grade 3/5 when using the double leg lowering assessment for trunk flexion (rectus abdominus testing).
What is past 70* from the surface? What is after 20* of lowering?
The bias of exercises when treating spinal stenosis?
What is flexion bias?
The description of BPPV?
What is when otoconia become dislodged and move into SCC; they detect movement and stimulate the Vestibular Nerve?
The type of balance control used to maintain a stable upright posture.
What is steady-state control?
The short or tightened muscles often found in forward head posture.