Abnormalities Of The Musculoskeletal System

Question 1

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Answer 1

chronic, systemic inflammatory disease of joints and surrounding connective tissue

Question 2

Rheumatoid Arthritis is characterized by

Answer 2

characterized by heat, redness, swelling, and painful motion of the affected joints.
worse in the morning when arising

Question 3

Osteoarthritis

Answer 3

noninflammatory, localized, progressive disorder involving deterioration of articular cartilages and subchondral bone, and formation of new bone at joint surfaces

Question 4

Effects of Osteoarthritis

Answer 4

affected joints have stiffness, swelling with hard bony protuberances, pain with motion, and limitation of motion
worse later in the day

Question 5

Osteoporosis

Answer 5

decrease in skeletal bone mass occurring when rate of bone resorption is greater than that of bone formation

Question 6

Atrophy

Answer 6

Loss of muscle mass

Question 7

Dislocated Shoulder

Answer 7

anterior dislocation (95%) is exhibited as a hollow where it would normally look rounded

Question 8

Joint effusion

Answer 8

Swelling from excess fluid in the joint capsule

Question 9

Torn Rotator Cuff

Answer 9

Characteristic “hunched” position and limited abduction of the arm

Question 10

Gouty Arthritis

Answer 10

joint effusion or synovial thickening

Question 11

Gouty Arthritis is characterized by

Answer 11

characterized by redness, heat, soft, boggy or fluctuant fullness to palpation and limited ROM

Question 12

Epicondylitis

Answer 12

Aka tennis elbow - chronic disabling pain at the lateral epicondyle of humerous, radiates down extensor surface of forearm

Question 13

Ganglion Cyst

Answer 13

round cystic, nontender nodule overlying a tendon sheath or joint capsule
usually on dorsum of wrist

Question 14

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Answer 14

atrophy occurs from interference with motor function due to compression of the median nerve inside the carpal tunnel, caused by chronic repetitive motion

Question 15

Syndactyly

Answer 15

webbed fingers, congenital deformity

Question 16

Polydactyly

Answer 16

Extra digits

Question 17

Osgood Schlatter Disease

Answer 17

painful swelling of the tibial tubercle just below the knee, due to repeated stress on the patellar tendon

Question 18

Scoliosis

Answer 18

Curvature of the spine

Question 19

Congenital dislocated hip

Answer 19

Head of the femur is displaced out of the cup shaped acetabulum

Question 20

Spina Bifida

Answer 20

incomplete closure of the posterior part of vertebrae results in a neural tube defect
usually occurs 4th week if gestation

Question 21

myalgia

Answer 21

usually felt as a cramping or aching