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health hx includes: CORRECT ANSWERS: CC, past health hx, personal and social hx, ROS CC Hx CORRECT ANSWERS: the reason the pt is seeking care and should be obtained in the pt's own words OPQRST CORRECT ANSWERS: Sudden onset: thinking vascular stroke, MI, musculoskeletal Q: Throbbing=vascular. Ache=Muscular. Burning=nerve. Tearing=dissecting aneurysm. Radiating below the knee=nerve root. NOT below the knee=facet syndrome Timing: Headache in the morning=hypertension. Constant=Malignan...

A reflex muscle spasm which results from proprioceptive irritation is mediated by _______________ neuron? CORRECT ANSWERS: Gamma motor ___________________ is most apt to lead to altered axoplasmic flow in a neuron? CORRECT ANSWERS: Intra-neural microcirculation ischemia Radio-humeral subluxation that entraps the posterior interosseous nerve root most likely manifests in? CORRECT ANSWERS: Extensor muscles to the forearm Which subluxation is characterized by anterior displacement of th...

PVT TIM HALL Essential AA's Phenylalanine Valine Tryptophan Threonine Isoleucine Methionine Histidine (Essential in children only) Arginine Leucine Lysine Which AA doesn't contain a chiral carbon? Glycine Amphoteric? Acts as an Acid or Base 2 purely ketogenic AA's Leucine + :Lysine Lysine --> Carnitine --> Takes Fatty Acid into Mito for B-Oxidation. PTT Aromatic AA's Phenylalanine Tryptophan Tyrosine CMC Sulfur Containing AA's Cysteine Methionine Cystine (2...

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm CORRECT ANSWERS: Linear calcification anterior to L1-L4 on a lateral X-ray Achondroplasia CORRECT ANSWERS: Champagne glass pelvic inlet Flared Metaphysis Acromegaly CORRECT ANSWERS: Large Sella Turcica, Prominent EOP, arrowhead terminal phalanges Aneurysmal Bone Cyst CORRECT ANSWERS: Soap-bubble osteolytic lesion filled with blood, Ballooning of cortex Most commonly found in the distal femur Ankylosing Spondylitis CORRECT ANSWERS: Shiny corner sign, d...

Bennet's CORRECT ANSWERS: fracture of thumb, 1st metacarpal Boxer's CORRECT ANSWERS: fracture of 2,3 metacarpals barroom CORRECT ANSWERS: fracture of 4,5 metacarpal game keeper CORRECT ANSWERS: avulsion fracture of thumb colle's CORRECT ANSWERS: fracture of distal radius with posterior displacement smith's CORRECT ANSWERS: fracture of distal radius with anterior displacement monteggia's CORRECT ANSWERS: broken ULNA, dislocated Radius galeazzi's CORRECT ANSWERS:...

Most common benign bone tumor of the appendicular skeleton; either pedunculated or sessile? CORRECT ANSWERS: Osteochondroma Name for multiple osteochondromas; 20% of them undergo malignancy? CORRECT ANSWERS: Hereditary multiple exostosis Common benign bone tumor occuring primarily < 20 year olds and is often clinically silent; 75% of lesions in humerus and femur; associated with "fallen fragment" sign? CORRECT ANSWERS: Unicameral / simple bone cyst Only benign bone tumor we know...