NUR 568 - Week 9 Musculoskeletal Test
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Ligaments - ANSWER Connect bone to bone. Little vascularity and therefore
heal poorly.
Tendons - ANSWER attach muscle to bone
Cartilage - ANSWER connective tissue. Creates cushions for joints. Decreased
water content with age.
Grades of Ligament Tears - ANSWER 1 - Least severe
If a partial tear - grade 1 - will have exquisite pain bc any load will stress it.
3 - Most severe
Little to no pain b/c there is no load with full tear.
Types of muscle contractions - ANSWER Concentric / Shortening
Eccentric / Lengthening
Isometric / Static
Synovial Joint - ANSWER freely moveable
ex. knee, shoulder
Bones come in contact with each other but are covered with bursa
Cartilaginous - ANSWER Slightly movable
ex. vertebral bodies of the spine, symphysis pubis, sternomanubrial joint
, Fibrous - ANSWER Immovable
ex. skull sutures
Flexion - ANSWER Motion away from the zero position
Extension - ANSWER Return motion to zero position
Abduction - ANSWER moving away from the body's midline
Adduction - ANSWER moving toward the body's midline
Pronation - ANSWER turning the palm downward
Supination - ANSWER turning the palm upward
Inversion - ANSWER Turning the sole of the foot inward
Eversion - ANSWER turning the sole of the foot outward
Circumduction - ANSWER rotation around in a single plane - when the wrist
turns you can't turn it all the way in one motion, you have to stop and
readjust.
Rotation - ANSWER Rotate multiple planes in one smooth movement ex.
shoulder
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