1 Cervical Spine Syndromes Flashcards
What are the Mobility examination findings in a patient?
- Recent onset of symptoms
- No radicular signs and symptoms
- Restricted ROM with side to side roation and/or discrepancy in lateral flexion ROM
- no signs of nerve root compression/peripheralization
What intervention is proposed with Mobility classifed patients?
- Cervical and thoracic spine mobilization/manipulation
- Active ROM exercises
What are the Centralization findings?
- Radicular signs/symptoms
- Peripheralize or centralize with ROM
- Signs of nerve root compression
- Symptoms distal to elblow
What intervention is proposed for Centralization patients?
- Mechanical and cervical traction
- Repeated movements/activites to promote centralization symptoms
What are the Conditioning and Exercises Increase findings in a patient?
- No radicular signs/symptoms
- Chronic Symptoms
- Low pain and disability scores
- No nerve root compression signs or perhipheral/centralization
What interventions are propsed with exercise and conditioning classification patients?
- Aerobic conditioning
- Strengthening and endurance for upper neck
What are the findings for Pain Control patients?
- Acute onset of symptoms
- Traumatic mechanism
- High pain and disability scores
- recent onset of symptoms
- Reffered or radiating symptoms to Upper Quarter
- Poor Tolerance for exam
What are the intervention strategies for Pain Control patients?
- Gental ROM + activity
- ROM for adjacent regions
- Physical modalities as needed
- Activity modification
What are the examination findings for Headache patients?
- Primary complaint headache
- Cervicogenic headache
- Unilateral headache with onset by neck pain
- triggered by neck movement/positions
- Pressure on posterior neck brings symptoms
What interventions are proposed for Headache patients?
- Manual Therapy
- Neck Flexor/scapular strengthening
- C spine manipulation/mobilization
- Postural education
What is the formular for evaluating neck and upper extrimity pain?
- Know normal and recognize deviation
- Reproduce pain by reproducing abnormal movement/position
- Understand mechanism pain is caused
Describe pain originating from soft tissues
Soft tissues can cause majority of symptom s
upper C spine
Describe muscular pain from tension
- May occur at periosteal site of attachment
- Common site is base of skull
- attachment of upper trapezii and subocciptals
- May occur within belly of a muscle from either acute or sustained contractions
Muscular Pain from Tension (ACUTE)
- Isometric contractions produce greater intramuscular pressure than isotonic
- Increasd internal pressure leads to inflammation and “myositis”
Muscular Pain from Tension (Sustained Contraction)
Leads to Ischemic pain
- lack of O2
- Accumulated irritating metabolites (Factor P, potassium, Lactic Acid)