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NMS Question | NMS Answer |
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49 yoa female presents with an acute complaint of paresthesia over the palmar aspect of her right thumb and first two fingers. Dx? | Median N. - pronator teres syndrome or carpal tunnel |
What is the inability to recognize familiar aspects of the environment such as shapes, symbols, sounds geometric forms is: | agnosia |
A cause of transient structural scoliosis? | N. root irritation-antalgic lean |
What does transient scoliosis refer to? | disc herniation or N. compression |
Condition presents with intermittent px along a dermatome of a rib with vesicles: | herpes zoster |
60 yoa females presents with stiff posture and absence of facial expression. Which gait? | propulsion (festinating, rigid) |
Weak ankle dorsiflexion results in: | steppage-lift up high |
What is jandrassik maneuver used for? | to distract someone when doing a reflex test |
What is thoracic kyphosis primarily maintained by? | vertebral bodies |
What is indicated by palpation of the left iliac crest posteriorly compared to the right? | anterior superior rotation of the right ilium |
Scoliosis in which of the following areas is most apt to be problematic at the lowest degree of the curvature? | thoracic-due to pressure on heart |
Neck extension with right rotation during deep inspiration causes neurovascualar compression with the right? | scalene muscles |
Weakness of wrist flexion is due to a lesion at the [blank] nerve | C7 |
Pellegrini Steida's ds: | calcification of the tibial collateral ligament along the medial condyle of the femur (wisp of smoke on x-ray) |
Reflexes most efficiently tests the C6 N. root | brachioradialis (biceps-C5&C6) |
A pt. experiences episodic px in the lower ext which increases with walking, relieved by a few minutes of rest and not influenced by a stooped posture | vascular insufficiency |
Vascular claudication | due to vessels-always get to the same spot when px occurs-posture does not help |
giant cell arteritis aka | temporal arteritis |