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Bones and Bony Landmarks
Common Pathologies
Muscles of the Neck and Trunk
Joints and Ligamentous Structures
Miscellaneous
100
A cylindrical mass of cancellous bone, it is the anterior portion of the vertebrae serving as the major weight bearing structure of the vertebral column.
What is the vertebral body?
100
A deformity of the neck usually seen in children, where the person's head is laterally bent to one side and rotated toward the opposite side.
What is torticollis?
100
The orientation of the lumbar facet joints.
What is the sagittal plane?
100
This structure passes through the vertebral foramen.
What is the vertebral artery?
200
The portion of the occiput that articulates with the superior articulating facets of the atlas.
What is the occipital condyles?
200
The action of a bilateral sternocleidomastoid muscle contraction?
What is cervical flexion if the capital spine is held stable or capital extension if the capital spine is not held stable?
200
The direction of arthrokinematic glide in the facets of C5 and C6 with rotation to the left side.
What is anterior translation of C5 on C6 on the right, posterior translation of C5 on C6 on the left side.
200
The muscle of the erector spinae group that is most capable of performing sidebending of the trunk.
What is the iliocostalis muscle?
300
The best way to determine if the vertebrae you are examining is a thoracic vertebrae.
What is the presence of a demi-facet, which is the articulation between the rib and the thoracic vertebrae?
300
This condition usually results from a fracture of the pars interarticularis bilaterally, which results in a shifting of one vertebrae on another.
What is spondylolisthesis?
300
It is advisable to strengthen this muscle "group" prior to performing strenuous exercise to the lower back or abdomen.
What is the transversospinalis group?
300
This ligament can be found on the anterior aspect of the vertebral foramen.
What is the posterior longitudinal ligament?
300
This muscle is most likely injured with "whiplash" of the cervical spine, which is problematic for recovery due to its function in stabilizing each segment of the cervical spine and providing sensory information to the brain about the position of the head.
What is the longus colli?
400
The portion of the neural arch just posterior to the vertebral body and anterior the lamina, when shorter than normal is likely to cause spinal cord compression.
What is the pedicle?
400
A progressive inflammatory condition that eventually leads to fusion of the vertebral column and sacral vertebrae.
What is ankylosing spondylitis?
400
A person with weakness of the capital flexors will exhibit this when attempting to right from the supine position.
What is a head lag or capital hyperextension?
400
The number of joints and/or facets on a thoracic vertebrae.
What is 8? (articulation between vertebral bodies above and below, left and right superior articulating facet, left and right inferior articulating facet, demifacet, and transverse facet)
400
The ROM of the thoracic spine is limited in all directions primarily due to the this factor.
What is the small size of the intervertebral discs between thoracic vertebrae?
500
The portion of the vertebrae most likely to be removed in the presence of spinal nerve impingement.
What is the lamina?
500
The muscles that would need to be strengthened if you hope to prevent your patient from sustaining repeated vertebral compression fractures.
What is the quadriceps and gluteus maximus?
500
The agonist action of the left external oblique and the left multifidus at the level of L2.
What is right rotation?
500
The compensation in the lumbar spine for sacral nutation with left rotation will cause the L5 inferior articulating facets to glide on S1 in this direction.
What is left side anterior and right side posterior to compensate for the left sacral rotation with a shifting of both sides more posterior than their resting position to compensate for sacral nutation?
500
The anterior and posterior causes of compression into a spinal nerve as it exits though the intervertebral foramen.
What is the intervertebral disc anteriorly and facet joint posteriorly?