Basic Principles Flashcards
What is orthopedic manual therapy?
The practice and utilization of skilled hand movements intended to improve tissue extensibility; increase range of motion; induce relaxation; mobilize or manipulate soft tissue and joints; modulate pain; and reduce soft tissue swelling, inflammation, or restriction.
What is clinical reasoning?
Process by which the therapist, while interacting with the patient and significant others, structures meaning, goals, and health management strategies based on clinical data, client choices, professional judgment/knowledge.
What are clinical prediction rules?
Algorithmic decision tools designed to aid clinicians in determining a diagnosis, prognosis, or likely response to an intervention
What are clinical practice guidelines?
Systematically developed guide to assist the clinician and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances
What is regional interdependence?
Musculoskeletal concept that seemingly unrelated impairments in a remote anatomical region may contribute to, or be associated with, the patient’s primary complaint.
True or false; somatic impairments are mechanical in nature and can be traced to non-systemic causes
True
____________is a pathological condition or abnormal entity with
a characteristic group of signs and symptoms affecting
the body from either known or unknown etiology
Disease
What are the features of disease?
➢ Symptoms not worsened with activity; not improved with rest ➢ Pain comes and goes like spasms ➢ Disproportionate pain ➢ Severe night pain ➢ Systemic signs and symptoms
What makes weight loss concerning?
More than 15% of body weight
Less than a 3 month period
Unintentional
evidence-based medicine avoids practice lacking…
reliability, validity, and efficacy.
Which source defines pain as…
“A disturbed sensation that causes suffering or distress”
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PT Guide
Which source defines pain as…
“A unpleasant psychophysiological experience, triggered by activation of the normally quiescent nociceptive afferent system”
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Makofsky
Which source defines pain as…
“Pain is an unpleasant feeling that is felt somewhere in the body and urges us to protect that body part”
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Butler and Mosely
What is dermatomal pain?
Painful lesions pf skin and superficial fascia
What is somatic pain?
- Mechanical strains/ sprains of musculoskeletal structures
- Symptoms describes as being proximal, deep, achy, stiff, sore (etc)
- Associated signs of somatic impairment, including misalignment, hypomobility, and tissue texture abnormality
What is neurogenic pain?
- Inflammation of neural tissue usually due to compression
- Symptoms described as being distal, sharp, shooting, burning, (etc)
- Associated signs of peripheral neuropathy, including weakness, sensory loss, atrophy, hyporeflexia (etc)
What is Viscogenic pain?
- Pathological lesions of visceral structures
- Symptoms of systemic disease described as intense, constant, worse at night, not relieved by rest nor worsened by activity, throbbing, etc.
- Associated signs of systemic disease, including edema, clubbing, skin rash, pallor, hair loss, unexplained weight loss/ gain, nausea, anorexia, fatigue, night sweats, fever, etc.
What are somatoform disorders?
Physical symptoms in the absence of organic causes with evidence of psychological involvement
True or false; Deep somatic pain is commonly perceived at the level of
impairment
False- rarely, secondary to nerve convergence
What are the two types of complex regional pain syndrome?
1- (RSD)- multiple regions
2-(causalgia)- single nerve root/ nerve distribution that is hyper sensitive
Normally, peripheral nociceptive and/or peripheral neurogenic stimulation is sensed and relayed to …
the spinal cord and CNS for processing.
What happens to the sensation of pain during central sensation processing?
Central processing is amplified, prolonged, and/or altered resulting in lower sensory activation thresholds.
True or false; Central processing becomes influenced by thoughts,
perception, understanding, and emotions regarding pain.
True
What are neuro tags?
(In this context specifically) When different parts of the brain become activated by memories of the pain or time of injury
What are the abnormalities associated with cardiac-adrenal-pain syndrome?
- Hypertension >130/90 = 60
- Heart Rate > 84 = 46
- High Serum Cortisol (>20ug/dl) = 28
- High Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) (>20mm/hr) = 30
Which system of manual therapy has an Emphasis on treatment of specific impairments consistent with traditional manual therapy thinking. It includes osteopathic Rx?
Mechanism based
Which system of manual therapy is based on thee syndromes dictating Rx?
McKenzie
Which system of manual therapy is based on muscle imbalances (tonics vs phasics) ?
Janda
Which system of manual therapy is based on movement impairment syndrome?
Sahrmann
Which system of manual therapy utilizes a cluster of signs and symptoms to classify patients into subgroups with specific implications for management? It includes McKenzie, mobilization/manipulation, and stabilization.
Treatment based
What are McKenzie’s 3 syndromes?
Postural syndrome
Dysfunction syndrome
Derangement syndrome
What is postural syndrome?
- Normal healthy tissues
- Pain is induced by static loading at end range and not by movement
- Pain is never referred and never constant
What is dysfunction syndrome?
- Shortened soft tissues have reduced elasticity
- Pain occurs at end range when shortened structures are places under tension
- Pain is never felt during movement and is never referred
True or false; Dysfunction syndrome is often found in young adults
False, it’s an accumulation of postural syndromes with age
What is derangement syndrome?
- Misalignment of intervertebral disc material (annulus or nucleus) causing blockage
- Symptoms are made worse or better by specific movements and can be referred distally and tend to be constant and often severe
- The patient may present with acute spinal deformity of sudden onset (e.g., kyphosis, torticollis, or lateral shift), which is often improved dramatically with manual therapy/ therapeutic exercise
What is a mobilization?
A manual therapy technique comprising of a continuum of skilled passive movements to the joints and/or related soft tissues that are applied at varying speeds and amplitudes