MBLEX PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
How is research validated? - answer- Further research to replicate findings
What are the heart, liver, and lungs? - answer- Organs
What consists of elongated cells that can use ATP to generate force? - answer- Muscle
tissue
Which system includes sebaceous glands, sweat glands, and breasts? - answer-
Integumentary
What is the fleshy part in the middle of the muscle? - answer- Belly
**Which is the "rest and digest" nervous system?** - answer- Parasympathetic
What are irregular small bony plates found at the end of long bones and in the center of
other bones? - answer- Periosteum
Which system includes glands such as the hypothalamus, hypophysis, thyroid, and
thymus? - answer- Endocrine
**What is the universal recipient blood type?** - answer- AB positive
What type of immunity is genetically determined? - answer- Innate
Which system controls sex hormones and includes the female mammary glands? -
answer- Reproductive
**What is the range of the length of the phase of healing in which the bleeding stops
and inflammation occurs?** - answer- 2-3 days to 2-3 weeks
Which region of the trunk has twelve vertebrae? - answer- Thoracic
**Which means the ends are bent inward, or bent toward the midline:><, knock-kneed?
** - answer- Valgus deformity
Where is the humerus relative to the radius? - answer- Proximal
Which region of the trunk has five vertebrae? - answer- Lumbar
What is the belly referred to in the Shiatsu method? - answer- Hara
**Which dermatone is located by the toes, the most inferior?** - answer- L5
Which of these muscles inserts on the clavicle? - answer- Subclavius
, Shin splints are pain in what bone? - answer- Tibia
**Where is the medial epicondyle of the humerus?** - answer- Directly medial from
olecranon process
Which stroke is best for insomnia? - answer- Effleurage
Which is a contraindication for pregnancy massage? - answer- Pre-eclampsia
What is a benefit of massage for the critically ill? - answer- Improve mobility
Control pain
Allow for a more positive attitude
When should heat therapy be avoided? - answer- Acute stage of injury
What is not an effect of R.I.C.E.S. treatment? - answer- Vasodilation
If a client has kyphotic-lordotic posture, what is the most appropriate treatment? -
answer- Lengthen adductor longus and oblique capitis superior
**If a client has a tendency towards kyphosis and a depressed chest, what is the most
appropriate treatment?** - answer- Lengthen anterior internal and external obliques
**What is done if a client has the knee in a flexed position with medical rotation of the
leg on the thigh?** - answer- Lengthen popliteus
What would trigger points along the lateral neck flexors, horizontal arm abductors,
internal arm, rotators contribute to? - answer- Brachial plexus impingement
What would be a good position for performing on-site corporate massage? - answer-
Seated
What is the use of touch to examine? - answer- Palpation
Where on the SOAP chart is verbal information that clients share documented? -
answer- Subjective
**Which are relatively slow to respond?** - answer- Postural muscles
What could cause a hot area? - answer- Muscle spasm
Which muscles are elongated and weak with kyphotic-lordotic posture? - answer-
External obliques
**As feet are influenced by shoes with heels, what tends to increase with heel height?**
- answer- In-toeing
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