Basic Terminology

Question 1

Describe Transverse/Horizontal plane

Answer 1

A plane passing horizontally through the body, dividing it into superior and inferior portions.

Question 2

Describe Midsagittal/Median plane

Answer 2

A plane passing longitudinally through the body from front to back, diving the body into equal right and left portions

Question 3

Describe Bogginess

Answer 3

Tissue texture abnormality characterized by a palpable sense of sponginess as a result of congestion due to increased fluid.

Question 4

What is contraction

Answer 4

Shortening or reduction in size

Question 5

Define diagnosis

Answer 5

The art of distinguishing one disease from another.
The use of scientific and skillful methods to establish the cause and nature of a person’s illness.

Question 6

What is distortion (in the body)

Answer 6

Any mechanical departure from ideal or normal symmetry

Question 7

Define Lesion

Answer 7

Any pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or function

Question 8

Define misalignment

Answer 8

not in proper alignment

Question 9

Describe myofascial trigger point

Answer 9

A hyperirritable spot;
usually in a taut band of skeletal muscle or fascia;
painful on compression

Question 10

Name the types of myofascial trigger points

Answer 10

Active
Latent
Primary
Associated
Satellite
Secondary

Question 11

Define palpation and its purpose

Answer 11

The act of feeling with the hands.
Used to determine the shape, size, consistency, position, inherent mobility, and health of tissue.

Question 12

Define static palpation

Answer 12

Palpation of somatic structures in a neutral non-moving position

Question 13

Define palpatory diagnosis

Answer 13

Process of palpating a patient to evaluate the neuromusculoskeletal and visceral systems

Question 14

Define referred pain

Answer 14

Pain felt in a part other than that in which the pain is produced or situated
Pain felt in a part away from the source of the pain.

Question 15

Define ropiness

Answer 15

Tissue texture abnormality characterized by a cord or stringy-like feeling.

Question 16

Define rotation

Answer 16

Motion of the body around an axis

Question 17

Define subluxation

Answer 17

Aberrant relationship between two adjacent articular structures
May have functional or pathological sequelae (aftereffect of a disease, condition, or injury) causing an alteration in the biomechanical/neurophysiological reflections of these articular structures, their proximal structures, and/or body systems that may be directly or indirectly affected by them.