Shoulder
The best position to assess joint play in the GHJ
What is 45o abduction and 30o flexion in the scapular plane?
The name for a carrying angle less than zero.
What is cubitus varus, or "gunstock deformity?"
Rays that contribute most to the stability of the hand.
What are the 2nd and 3rd rays?
The convex partners at the AA joint.
What are the C2 superior articular processes and the dens?
The plane of motion most restricted by the orientation of the lumbar facets.
What is the transverse plane?
Three general structures that stabilize the GHJ
The best position to place the elbow to assess joint play in the humero-ulnar joint.
What is 70o flexion and slight (10o) supination?
The effect of a finger pulley rupture on excursion and flexor torque potential at the affected joint.
What is reduced excursion, and increased flexor torque potential?
The superior extensions of the PLL and the supraspinous ligament in the upper cervical spine.
What are the tectorial membrane and the nuchal liagment?
The scapular landmark used to find the T3 spinous process.
What is the root of the scapular spine?
What is the ALL (tension) and the spinous processes (approximation)
Scapular motions involved in reaching behind your back
What are downward rotation, anterior tilt, internal rotation, and protraction?
Effect on the syndesmosis of holding a heavy object at your side.
What is making it slack?
The location of the axis of rotation for 1st CMC abduction.
What is the proximal end of the 1st metacarpal?
R AA joint arthrokinematics with L upper cervical rotation to end range.
What is an anterior glide with superior and then inferior translation?
The spinal level/structure that is parallel with the T5 spinous process
What is the T5-T6 intervertebral disc?
Normal sagittal plane PROM in the lumbar spine.
What is 60o of flexion and 30o of extension?
Mobilizing glide at the SCJ most likely to improve shoulder retraction ROM.
What is a posterior glide of the proximal clavicle?
The best mobilizing glide to restore limited supination at the PRUJ
What is an anterior glide of the radial head?
Normal MCP extension PROM and the best glide to improve extension if limited.
What is 40o hyperextension and what is a dorsal glide of the proximal phalanx?
The reason that moderate flexion is the open-packed position of the c-spine.
What is because this is the position of least congruence of the articular surfaces?
The articular surfaces that make up the 5th costocorporeal joint.
What is the head of the 5th rib and the demifacets of T4 and T5?
Lumbar spinal structures that are more loaded with flexion.
What are the lumbar vertebral bodies and the intervertebral disks?
The motion in which the apex of the sacrum moves post/sup compared to the ilium
What is nutation?
Mobilizing glide at the GHJ most likely to improve external rotation
What is an anterior glide of the proximal humerus?
Best elbow position to test for maximal torque production of the flexors.
What is 90o of elbow flexion?
Best mobilizing glide to improve 1st CMC flexion.
What is an ulnar glide of the proximal end of the 1st metacarpal?
The effect of R sidebending on the intervertebral foramen.
What is ipsilateral narrowing/closing and contralateral widening/opening?
The costotransverse joint arthrokinematics during exhalation.
What is inferior/anterior roll with superior/posterior glide of the rib tubercle on the transverse process?
The average orientation of the lumbar articular facets.
What is 25o from the sagittal plane?
The pelvic position in which the ASIS is lower and the PSIS is higher than the opposite side.
What is anterior innominate rotation?
These two muscles, innervated by the same nerve, perform scapular elevation and downward rotation.
What are the levator scapula, rhomboids, and dorsal scapular nerve?
The ligament that primarily stabilizes the radial head to the proximal ulna.
What is the annular ligament?
The component motions and order in which they occur to produce thumb opposition.
What are (in order) abduction, flexion, and internal rotation?
The involuntary motion that occurs whenever we rotate the cervical spine.
What is ipsilateral sidebending?
Reverse action of the serratus anterior when the scapula is stabilized.
What is ipsilateral trunk rotation?
The arthrokinematics at a lumbar motion segment with R rotation.
What is R gapping and L approximation?
Specific location of the sagittal axis of sacral rotation.
What is the interosseous portion of the SI joint, just anterior to the PSIS?
Simultaneous contraction of these muscles centralizes the humeral head in the glenoid fossa
What are the subscapularis, supraspinatus, infraspinatus, and teres minor?
The function of Lister's Tubercle.
What is providing a pulley to increase the mechanical advantage of the EPL tendon?
The nerve that could be compromised if the dorsal 2nd and 3rd finger tips are numb
What is the median nerve?
The compensatory upper c-spine motions that occur to maintain a level gaze when sidebending the lower c-spine.
What is contralateral AA rotation and capital sidebending?
The action of the latissimus dorsi on the trunk when the pelvis is stabilized.
What is ipsilateral rotation?
The muscle that is capable of stabilizing the lumbar spine without compressing it.
What is the Transversus Abdominis?
The pathologic pelvic position in which the ASIS of the involved side is further from midline than the uninvolved side.
What is outflare?
The muscle primarily responsible for rotating and elevating the humerus after a reverse TSA.
What is the deltoid?
The functions of the transverse carpal ligament.
What is forming the roof of the carpal tunnel and preventing flexor tendon bowstringing?
The two primary muscles involved in a healthy power (key) pinch.
What are the adductor pollicis and the 1st dorsal interosseous muscles?
The force couple that produces contralateral cervical rotation.
What are the upper trap and SCM muscles?
The prime movers for LEFT trunk rotation.
What are the L internal obliques and the R external obliques?
The predominant muscle activity during the last 25% of the trunk forward bending motion.
What is eccentric hip extensor muscle activity?
The two classifications of joints that comprise the SI joint.
What are diarthrosis (synovial) and synarthrosis (fibrous)?
The scapular dysfunction most likely to result from a traction injury to the long thoracic nerve.
What is winging?
Load distribution in the forearm, and the tissue that transfers some load off the radius.
What is 80% through the radius, and 20% through the ulna? What is the TFCC?
The role of passive tension on the lumbriacls during finger flexion
What is creating additional MCP flexion torque and stabilizing IP extension torque?
Two deep neck flexors that can produce capital flexion.
What are the longus capitis and the rectus capitis anterior?
The abdominal muscle ideally suited to the stabilization role.
What is the Transversus Abdominis?
What is flexion of the lumbar intervertebral joints?
The definitions of enterocele and rectocele
What are prolapse of the small bowel and the colon, respectively?
Best scapular positions to reduce symptoms of subacromial impingement.
What are scapular posterior tilt, upward rotation, external rotation, and retraction?
The mobilizing glide that would most likely improve flexion
What is a posterior (dorsal) glide of the proximal carpal row?
The tissue compromised 1st in a Boutonniere's deformity.
What is the central band?
A muscle that is likely to be adaptively shortened in someone with chronic forward head posture.
What is the SCM?
The reverse action of the diaphragm at the end of forced inspiration.
What is elevation of the lower ribs?
The action of the iliopsoas on the lumbar spine (if no other muscles are stabilizing)
What is lumbar extension?
The force couple that would be weak in a L pelvic lateral tilt.
What is the R glute med and L QL?
The tissue injuries associated with a Type III ACJ separation.
What is a rupture of the AC ligaments and rupture of the coracoclavicular ligaments?
The pathology resulting from bearing loads through an unstable radiocarpal joint.
What is translocation of the carpus?
Atrophy of the thenar eminence could indicate an injury to this nerve.
What is the median nerve?
The effect of forward head posture on internal torque produced by the cervical extensors.
What is increased torque?
The compression sites associated with thoracic outlet syndrome.
What are the interscalene triangle, retro-pectoral space, and the costoclavicular interval?
The pelvic position that would reduce shear at the lumbosacral junction.
What is posterior pelvic tilt?
Relative position of the R ILA (compared to L) in a R on L sacral torsion.
What is more prominent/posterior compared to the L side?
Two muscles that are potentially implicated in thoracic outlet syndrome.
What are the scalenes and the pectoralis minor?
Best position to immobilize the wrist to preserve grip strength
What is 30o of radiocarpal joint extension?
The common name for a rupture of the UCL of the thumb.
What is Skier's Thumb? (also acceptable: What is Gamekeeper's Thumb?)
The precaution you should always take before doing a cervical spine manipulation.
What is test the vertebral artery for occlusion with rotation/extension?
Best mobilizing glide to improve limited L rotation at the T5/6 segment.
What is an inferior/posterior glide of the L T5 inferior articular process on the T6 superior process? (or sup/ant glide of R T5 inf process)
The condition in which there are fractures of the pars interarticularis without anterior slippage of the upper vertebra.
What is Spondylolysis?
The relative positions of the R ILA and sacral sulcus in a L on L sacral torsion.
What is anterior/deep for both the ILA and the sulcus compared to the L side?