What nerve!
An area of skin supplied by a single sensory nerve root.
What is a dermatome?
Safest and easiest spine boarding technique.
What is the 8-man lift technique?
A rapid breakdown of muscle tissue causing myoglobin to clog the kidneys.
Causes hyperreflexia.
Upper motor neuron lesion?
Quadrant of the abdomen in which the appendix is found. (Upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right)
What is lower right?
A specific group of muscles innervated by a single nerve root originating from the spinal cord.
What is a myotome?
First action of the rescuer/responder when managing a suspected C-spine injury.
Name of injury caused by direct trauma to the brachial plexus, causing tingling, numbness, and weakness into the arm.
What is a stinger or burner?
Herniated disc causing a pinched nerve in the back.
What is lower motor neuron lesion?
Amount of lumbar vertebrates.
What is 5?
Deep tendon reflex to check the L3-L4 nerve root.
What is the patellar tendon?
What is to pull towards?
Kehr's sign is radiating pain into the left shoulder caused by injury to this organ of the abdomen.
What is the spleen?
Spastic and rigid muscle.
What is a upper motor neuron lesion?
Name of your tailbone.
What is the coccyx?
Positive Bibinski sign.
What is when the toes splay out and extend instead of curl down?
Force applied to a prone victim by the rescuers during a standard 5-man log roll. (P***).
What is to push away?
The medical term for a stress fracture or crack in the pars interarticularis—a small, thin bridge of bone that connects the upper and lower facet joints of a single vertebra in the spine. Most often caused from excessive extension of the lumbar spine.
What is spondylolysis?
Rapid, localized, muscle atrophy (shrinking).
What is lower motor neuron lesion?
Name of the 2nd vertebra (C2) of the cervical spine.
What is the axis?
Deep tendon reflex that tests C5-C6 motor nerve.
What is the Bicep tendon reflex or the Brachioradialis tendon reflex?
What is the helmet facemask?
Condition/symptom of a disc bulge or herniated disc in the lumbar spine that causes a sharp, radiating pain that travels down the nerve with the same name as the condition (longest nerve in the body) into the buttock and leg. Often causes severe pain in the buttocks when sitting.
What is sciatica?
What is upper motor neuron lesion?
The network of all nerves that branch off the brain and spinal cord.
What is the peripheral nervous system (PNS)?