Norms
This is described as moving your limb away from the body.
What is an abduction
A pulsatile blowing sound, ausculatated as you listen to the abdomen, that can occur with stenosis, partial occlusion, or aneurysm of an artery.
What is A Bruit or Systolic Bruit
Decrease in skeletal bone mass leading to low bone mineral density and impaired bone density.
What is Osteoporosis
This is straightening a limg at the joint.
What is extension
These do not shorten with age
What is long bones
Noninflammatory, localized, progressive disorder involving deterioration of articular cartilages (cushion between the ends of the bones) and subchondral bone remodeling.
What is Osteoarthritis (OA) or Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD)
This is when a client raises and then lowers their arms.
What is elevation and depression
Decreased height of 3 to 5cm occurs with a shortening of what
What is shortening of the vertebral column
These types of medications can increase the risk for cardiac dysrhythmias, interfere with metabolism of anesthetics because of their effects on the liver, increase potential for excessive bleeding, decrease cerebral blood flow, cause HTN, increase the effects of opioids and sympathetic nervous system stimulants
What are herbal and alternative medications
Your client is moving their feet inwards and outwards at their ankles.
What is inversion and eversion
Loss of subcutaneous fat leaves these areas more prone to injury
What are bony prominences
Painful swelling of the tibial tubercle just below the knee, from overuse injury that places traction and microtrauma on the bone
What is Osgood-Schlatter Disease
Functional units of the musculoskeletal system that permit the mobility needed for ADL's.
What is joints
Slight flexion of this is common
What is the hips and knees
Congenital, rigid, and fixed malposition of foot including inversion, forefoot adduction, and foot pointing downward.
What is Talipes Equinovarus