NBCE Part 2 Practices Questions and Answers All Correct

NBCE Part 2 Practices Questions and Answers All Correct What is the reference structure of the vertebrae unless otherwise noted? - ANSWER vertebral body What side of the segment do you contact assuming no scoliosis is present? - ANSWER open wedge If scoliosis is present what side of segment do you contact? - ANSWER convexity If there is a scoliosis the doctor stands on which side? - ANSWER convexity Doctor contacts the side they are standing on when a patient is supine or prone. T or F? - ANSWER True What is a fixed segment? - ANSWER stuck What is a restricted or decrease segment? - ANSWER segment can't move there What is malposition? - ANSWER fixated In the cervical spine, with patient supine. How should position the neck? - ANSWER Laterally flex over your contact and rotate head away. Define: Flexion Malposition - ANSWER Increased interspinous space between the involved segment and the segment below with a decreased interspinous space between the involved segment and the segment above. Define: Extension Malposition - ANSWER Decreased interspinous space between the involved segment and the segment below with an increased interspinous space between the involved segment and the segment above. Hypomobility - ANSWER Decreased motion or segmental fixation. Hypermobility - ANSWER Loosened motor unit What is a segment or group of segments that move in an inconsistent manner in the corresponding area? - ANSWER aberrant motion What is a scoliosis and/or alteration of curve secondary to muscular imbalance? - ANSWER sectional intersegmental What is costovertebral or costotransverse disrelationship/sacroiliac subluxation characterized as? - ANSWER paraspinal In Gonstead the first letter of the listing always begins with what letter? - ANSWER P The first letter in the Gonstead listing refers to what? - ANSWER Posterior The Gonstead listing is based on what anatomical structure? - ANSWER spinous process The second letter of the Gonstead listing refers to what movement? - ANSWER spinous rotation What are the two options for the second letter in the Gonstead listing? - ANSWER R or L What does the third letter in the Gonstead listing refer to? - ANSWER lateral flexion or wedging on the side of spinous rotation What are the two options for the third letter of the Gonstead system? - ANSWER S or I What type of torque is used to correct the open wedge? - ANSWER Clockwise or Counterclockwise torque Generally Gonstead will contact which side of the wedge? - ANSWER open wedge What does Gonstead classify as "special listings"? - ANSWER -Sp(spinous), - La(lamina), -Tp(transverse process), -M(mammillary) What anatomical structure does the National Listing System use as a reference? - ANSWER body What is the first letter in the national listing system referring? - ANSWER body rotation What are the two options for the first letter in the national listing system? - ANSWER R or L What does the second letter refer to in the National Listing System? - ANSWER Posteriority What is the second letter in the National Listing System? - ANSWER P The third letter in the National Listing System refers to what type of movement? - ANSWER lateral flexion or wedging on the side of body rotation What are the two option for the third letter in the National Listing System? - ANSWER S or I What pelvic subluxation presents with the following: low femur head, anterior sacrum, longer innominate, larger obturator foramen, and increased lumbar lordosis? - ANSWER PI ilium What pelvic subluxation presents with the following: higher femur head, posterior sacrum, shorter innominate, smalle