Diagnostics
Surgical procedures +
Treatments
Drug
treatments
Abbreviations
Miscellaneous
100

A graphic recording of the contraction of a muscle as a result of electrical stimulation

What is a Electromyogram? (EMG)

100

Diagnostic procedure performed to evaluate the extent to which joints can be moved in a variety of directions.

What is a range-of-motion (ROM) testing?

100

A drug that relieves pain; includes nonprescription pain relievers, such as aspirin, and prescription pain relievers, such as hydrocodone.

What is a analgesic?

100

ATT PHYS 

What is a attending physician?

100

the ability to contract without the involvement of a nerve supply. Automaticity is a property of visceral, smooth, and cardiac muscles.

What is a automaticity?

200

A noninvasive scanning test that involves use of an electromagnetic field and radio waves to visualize soft-tissue structures.

What is a Magnetic resonance imaging? (MRI)

200

Incision to the tendon, usually to repair a deformity caused by a shortened muscle.

What Is a tenotomy?

200

A drug prescribed to suppress smooth-muscle contractions of the bladder, stomach, or intestine.

What is a antispasmodic or anticholinergic?

200

CRIF

What is a closed reduction and internal fixation?

200

Normally, the formation of a fibrous band of tissue that holds two parts or surfaces together, as in the healing of a wound. In a disease condition, the formation of a fibrous band of tissue that holds two surfaces together due to inflammation or trauma

What is a adhesion?

300

The measurement of range of motion in a joint.

What is a Goniometry?

300

Most common first-aid treatment for muscular injuries; often referred to as “RICE.”

What is a Rest Ice Compression Elevation? (RICE)

300

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?

300

DJD

What's is a degenerative joint disease?

300

Rotation of an arm or leg (as if “drawing a circle” with the limb). This type of motion occurs in multiple planes

What is a circumduction?

400

Diagnostic imaging technique in which a radioactive substance and a special camera visualize structures and functions in the body. The radioactive substance is injected into or swallowed by the patient.

What is a nuclear medicine imaging? (NMI)

400

Treatment to rehabilitate a patient who has experienced an illness or injury. Common methods include exercise; hydrotherapy (water therapy), shown in Figure 5.22; ultrasound; and diathermy (DIGH-uh-THER-mee), or deep heating of body tissues using a high-frequency electrical current.

What is a physical therapy?

400

A drug that reduces inflammation.

What is a anti-inflammatory?

400

NSAID

What is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug?

400

Movement of a body part away from the midline of the body

What is a abduction?

500

The removal of a small piece of living tissue for microscopic examination

What is a Biopsy?

500

Surgical repair of a muscle through plastic surgery.

What is a myoplasty?

500

A group of drugs with analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic (AN-tee-pigh-RET-ik) (fever-reducing) properties. Aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen are common over-the-counter (OTC) NSAIDs. This group of drugs is set apart from other drugs that have the same properties because they are nonsteroidal.

What is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs? (NSAID)

500

ORIF

What is a open reduction and internal fixation?

500

the ability to contract (shorten); for example, the biceps muscle contracts when the arm is flexed.

What is a contractility?