Diagnostics
The Removal of a small piece of living tissue for microscopic examination.
What is a Biopsy?
Surgical repair of a muscle through plastic surgery.
What is a myoplasty?
A drug that relieves pain; includes nonprescription pain relievers, such as aspirin, and prescription pain relievers, such as hydrocodone.
What is analgesic?
ACL
What is the Anterior cruciate ligament?
PCN
What is Penicillin?
Evaluation of involuntary muscular responses with a reflex hammer. Patients under heavy sedation or in a deep coma do not show these reflexes.
what are Deep Tendon Reflexes or DTR?
Most common first-aid treatment for muscular injuries; often referred to as “RICE.”
What is Rest Ice Compression Elevation?
A drug prescribed to suppress smooth-muscle contractions of the bladder, stomach, or intestine.
What are antispasmodic or anticholinergic?
CPR
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
dynia
What is pain?
A graphic recording of the contraction of a muscle as a result of electrical stimulation.
What is a electromyogram or EMG?
Incision to the tendon, usually to repair a deformity caused by a shortened muscle.
What is a Tenotomy?
A group of drugs with analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic (fever-reducing) properties. Aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen are common over-the-counter (OTC) NSAIDs.
What is a nonsteroidal?
DMD
What is Duchenne muscular dystrophy?
Abduction
What is Movement of a body part away from the midline of the body?
Diagnostic imaging method involving the use of high-frequency sound waves to generate images of structures of structures in the body, such as muscles, ligaments, and displaced or dislocated structures.
What is a sonography?
Treatment to rehabilitate a patient who has experienced an illness or injury. Common methods include exercise; hydrotherapy (water therapy), ; ultrasound; and diathermy, or deep heating of body tissues using a high-frequency electrical current.
What is Physical Therapy?
A drug that, in moderate doses, slows down the central nervous system, relieves pain, and induces sleep. Taken in excess, narcotics produce unconsciousness, stupor, coma, and possibly death.
What is a narcotic?
Hx
What is history?
Hyper
What is above; above normal; excessive
Diagnostic procedure performed to evaluate the extent to which joints can be moved in a variety of directions.
What is range-of-motion?
Exercises performed to improve or maintain joint mobility and flexibility. People can perform active ROM exercises on their own. Assisted ROM exercises require minor assistance due to mild weakness, pain, or stiffness. A physical therapist performs passive ROM exercises on a person who requires total assistance to do the exercises.
What is range-of-motion (ROM) therapy?
A drug that reduces inflammation.
What is a anti-inflammatory?
MRI
What is Magnetic resonance imaging
A thing measures, designs, fabricates, fits, and services a prosthesis , or artificial limb. A licensed physician can prescribe a prosthesis for the replacement of an extremity due to amputation, congenital deformity, or absence. A prosthetist must have at least a master’s degree and complete a one-year residency to obtain certification.
What is a Prosthetist?