Gait Lab
Physical Therapy
Spinal Anatomy
Simulation Lab
Careers in Spine
100

Measurements that define the timing and spatial aspects of gait, which are crucial for understanding the pace and rhythm of walking

What are spatiotemporal parameters?

100

This standardized tool is used to evaluate movement patterns to prevent re-injury in sports

 What is the Functional Movement Screen (FMS)?

100

Number of thoracic vertebrae

What is 12?

100

This instrument

What is kerrison rongeur?

100

The CEO of Texas Back Institute

Who is Trish Bowling?

200

Refers to the study of how the body moves regardless of the forces that move it

What are kinematics?

200

This FMS test at TBI measures trunk stability during a symmetrical upper-extremity movement

What is the Trunk Stability Push-Up?

200

Diagnosis of one vertebral body sliding over the top of the one below it

What is spondylolisthesis?

200

The ability of a material to act as a scaffold for bone growth

What is osteoinductivity?

200

Staff member who earned their bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Texas A&M?

Who is Kyle Robinson?

300

The study of forces in the body caused by mass and muscle, investigating the stresses on the body and joints during bodily movements

What are kinetics?

300

Who governs physical therapy standards to ensure consumer safety and high standards of practice?

Executive Council of PT and OT Examiners in Texas

300

The thin cartilage strip that allows diffusion of nutrients into the disc from the vertebrae

What is the endplate?

300

A mixture of bacteria, microorganisms and the slimy, glue-like substance they secrete that grows on surfaces inside the body

What is biofilm?

300

Staff member who went to Uganda for a spine surgery mission trip

Who is Bethany Wilson?

400

A sensor using gyroscopic and accelerometer technology for the purpose of recording movement in relation to other sensors

What is an IMU?

400

How many exercises are in the entire FMS battery?

What is 7?

400

Makes up the majority of the nucleus of a healthy disc

What is water?

400

A biologically inert polymer that has an equal ratio of stress acting on it to strain produced to that of human bone and appears transparent on an x ray

What is polyetheretherketone?

400

Roger's role at TBI

What is Senior technical analyst?

500

Number of reflective markers we place on the patient in the gait lab

What is 41?

500

What category of exercise encompasses pelvic tilts and bridges?

What are core strengthening exercises?

500

This CT image is an example of which view?

What is sagittal?

500

Donated bone that undergoes freezing, sterilization and removal of calcium and phosphate to provide a scaffolding for the patient's osteoblasts to grow bone into

What is demineralized bone matrix?

500

The three staff members who have PhD's

Who are Donna, Sara, and Mary?