Diagnostics
Process in which radiographic images of a specific section of the body are taken from multiple angles. A computer analyzes the images to identify muscular injury or disease.
What is a CT scan?
Treatment to rehabilitate a patient who has experienced an illness or injury.
What is physical therapy?
A drug that reduces inflammation.
What is an anti-inflammatory drug?
CT
What is a Computerized Tomography?
Muscles that are stimulated to move through conscious control.
What are voluntary muscles?
A graphic recording of the contraction of a muscle as a result of electrical stimulation.
What is an electromyogram?
Incision of the tendon, usually to repair a deformity caused by a shortened muscle.
A drug that relieves pain.
What is an analgesic?
Hx/hx
What is history?
The ability of a muscle to be stretched.
What is extensibility?
Evaluation of involuntary muscular responses with a reflex hammer.
What are deep tendon reflexes?
Surgical repair of a muscle through plastic surgery.
What is myoplasty?
A drug that, in moderate doses, slows down the central nervous system, relieves pain, and induces sleep.
What is a narcotic?
PCP.
What is Primary care physician?
A sheath of connective tissue that surrounds bundles of muscle fibers called fascicles.
What is the perimysium?
The measurement of range of motion in a joint.
What is goniometry?
Most common first-aid treatment for muscular injuries.
What is Rest Ice Compression Elevation?
A group of drugs with analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic properties.
What are Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs?
MCL
What is Medial collateral ligament?
Rotational motion of the forearm in which the palm moves to face downward.
Diagnostic imaging technique in which a radioactive substance and a special camera visualize structures and functions in the body.
What is Nuclear Medicine Imaging?
Exercises performed to improve or maintain joint mobility an flexibility.
What is range-of-motion therapy?
A drug prescribed to suppress smooth-muscle contractions of the bladder, stomach, or intestine.
What is an antispasmodic or anticholinergic?
RMS
What is Rhabdomyosarcoma?
Hand muscles between the metacarpals and metatarsals voluntarily control the fingers and toes.
What are interosseous muscles?