Abbreviations
ACL
What is Anterior Cruciate Ligament
ostalgia
What is bone pain?
What is puncture of a joint?
What is a cancerous muscles tumor?
Antiarthritic
What is a drug that opposes joint pain/inflammation?
RICE
What is Rest, Ice, Compressions, Elevation
What is bradykinesia?
The three types of spinal curvatures and descriptions.
What is - Scoliosis: sideways curvature
-Lordosis: forward curvature of lower spine.
Kyphosis: forward curvature of upper spine.
A partial dislocation of a joint
What is subluxation?
Tenorrhaphy
What is suture of a tendon?
The abbreviation for fracture.
What is Fx
cervicodynia
What is neck pain?
osteonecrosis
What is bone death?
Myoclonus
What is violent muscle contraction?
Osteoclasia
What is bone breaking (surgically to remedy deformity)?
Abbreviation for range of motion
What is RO?M
dystaxia
What is poor/bad coordination?
myocele
What is no cartilage formation?
Medical term for incision into bursa.
What is bursotomy?
EMG
What is Electromyogram?
Crepitation
What is a crackling sound heard in joints?
Medical term for poor/bad bone development.
What is osteodystrophy?
Medical term for joint disease of the vertebrae
What is spondyloarthropathy?
Medical term for binding vertebrae together.
What is spondylosyndesis?