TRP Refferals
Your client is experiencing referred pain up the outside of their neck and around their ear in the shape a of a question mark.
What is the upper trapezius muscles?
Your client has an acute sprain to their anterior talofibular ligament. You applied ice directly to the ligament in a circular motion for approximately 5 minutes until the area went numb.
What is ice massage
Your client is seated. They slump their shoulders, thoracic spine, head and neck forward. They then lift one leg, and then the other.
What is Slump’s Test?
Compression of me can lead to vague symptoms, pain, or numbness in the hand, most often in the ulnar distribution.
What is the brachial plexus?
Client is experiencing pain local to their posterior lateral neck, some nausea and light headedness. They suffered a whiplash injury 2 weeks prior. What is the first special test you should perform on this client?
What is Vertebral Artery Test
Your client is experiencing referred pain on the top of their head like a cap
What is the splenius capitis muscle?
Your client is unable to reach behind their back, it is very painful. You instruct them to bend forward and left their shoulder dangle and to move it passively in a circular motion and a figure 8 motion
What are pendulum exercises
Your client is seated. Their wrists are extended and palms are placed together. Forced is applied to increased pressure within the wrist
What is Reverse Phalen’s Test?
Your client is complaining of pain in a particular joint of their body. They are losing their range of motion in this pattern: external rotation, abduction, internal rotation
What is a capsular pattern for the glenohumeral joint?
Which special test would you use to differentiate between bursitis and tendinitis?
What is Tendinitis Differentiation Test
Your client is experiencing referred pain around their shoulder blade, down the outside of their upper arm and in their wrist.
What is the subscapularis muscle
You instruct your client to short sit on the table. Then on a count of two to extend their knees breathing out, and on a count of 4 to slowly lower their legs to a short sit. They are to perform 3 sets of 10 repetitions, every other day.
What is strengthening of the quadriceps muscle group
– I can only fit 2 of knuckles in my mouth
What is a positive 3 Knuckle Test?
I banged my anterior lower leg on the kitchen table. The front lateral of my lower leg now is painful with movement, feels hot, the skin looks tight and red.
What is acute anterior compartment syndrome?
Your client is presenting with a contracture in the right SCM muscle. What two ranges of motion will be restricted?
What is left lateral flexion and right rotation of the cervical spine?
Your client is experiencing referred pain in their posterior buttock and down the posterior thigh
What is the piriformis muscle
You instruct your client to perform a “thorax push up.” They have their arms outstretched against the wall, and then bring their thorax towards the wall with their arms straight
What is strengthening of the serratus anterior muscle?
I am experiencing decreased sensation at my lateral deltoid. The cotton ball feels rough!
What is a positive C5 dermatome
I am experiencing pain when running at the lateral side of my knee. It feels hot and swollen. Ober’s and Noble’s Test (+).
What is iliotibial band friction syndrome?
What position would you place your client in to stretch the rectus femoris?
What is hip extension and knee flexion?
Your client is experiencing referred pain on the front of their shin bone, in a line down to their great toe
What is the tibialis anterior muscle?
Your client has chronic swelling surrounded by fascial restriction at their lateral ankle, the result of many sprains over the years. You choose to apply hydrotherapy to their swelling, what would you apply?
What is heat?
Your client is prone. Their knee is flexed to their buttock. Their hip lifts.
What is a positive Ely’s Test?
– Compression of a nerve causing local conduction block with no structural damage to the axon or tissue distal to the lesion.
What is a neuropraxia or first degree nerve lesion?
Your client is side-lying with their pelvis stabilized, with hip extension
What is Gaenslen’s Test?