These 3 characteristics are considered red flags for tumor when associated with a complaint of low back pain.
What is age > 50 years, nighttime pain, and h/o cancer.
100
Honorably discharged Veterans with ALS get this percentage of service connection.
What is 100%
100
These are three absolute contraindications to a joint injection.
What is pt refusal, localized infection, skin condition preventing adequate preparation, tumor at injection site, gross coagulation abnormality
100
The number of therapy pools located at the Seattle VA.
What is two?
100
Truculent
What is ready to fight or cruel
This club doesn’t really attract the dangerous types, so why was that bouncer being so truculent?
200
This finding distinguishes meralgia paresthetica from an L2/L3 radiculopathy
What is the absence of weakness?
200
This subtype of ALS is characterized by the predominance of spasticity or other upper motor neuron signs.
What is Primary Lateral Sclerosis
200
These are three common steroids used in joint injections.
What is betamethasone, methylprednisolone, prednisolone, triamcinolone acetonide?
200
The average temperature of the each of the pools at the Seattle VA.
What is 92 and 86 degrees
200
Solipsistic
What is believing that oneself is all that exists
Colette’s solipsistic attitude completely ignored the plight of the homeless people on the street.
300
FABERs and Gaenslen's are used to identify this pain generator.
What is the SI joint?
300
This term is a symptom of ALS, and refers to the discordance between a person's emotional state and facial expression.
What is Pseudobulbar Affect?
300
Lidocaine works as a local anesthetic by this mechanism.
What is a reversible sodium channel blocker.
300
These two service lines are the only ones that typically refer patients to aquatic therapy at this time.
What are Rehabilitation Care Services and Spinal Cord Injury?
300
Fatuous
What is silly, foolish.
He considers himself a serious poet, but in truth, he only writes fatuous limericks.
400
A young tall man presents with abrupt onset of acute low back pain and history of postural syncope. This vascular diagnosis is important to rule out.
What is an AAA?
400
Also known as Kennedy's Disease, this disease affects Onuf's nucleus and is the results from a trinucleotide repeat expansion.
What is Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophy
400
As an alternative to using botox to the adductors, this nerve block can be used as a way to treat adductor spasms.
What is an obturator nerve block.
400
Requirements for patients to participate in aquatic therapy.
What are deck shoes, swim suit and a desire to heal?
400
Blandish
What is to coax by using flattery
Rachel’s assistant tried to blandish her into accepting the deal.
500
You patient is reporting anterior knee pain and buckling at the knee. In addition to knee joint pathology, this spine-related pathology could also present this way.
What is an L3 radiculopathy?
500
The mechanism of action of riluzole.
What is inhibits glutamate release from pre-synaptic terminals?
500
1-2 cm inferior and 1-2 cm anterior to the angle of the acromion.
What is an site to perform a subacromial injection.
500
Name 3 contraindications for using therapy pools
What are wound, incontinence, recent seizures?
500
Eleemosynary
What is of, relating to, or supported by charity
He used his vast fortune for establishing and funding a host of eleemosynary institutions.