CAOM Practical

Question 1

Move your hands for right torsion.

Vault hold

Answer 1

• Right hand: index finger up; pinky down (fingers point to ceiling)
• Left hand: fingers go down into table

Question 2

Move your hands for left torsion.

Vault hold

Answer 2

• Left hand: index finger up to ceiling; pinky down (fingers to ceiling)
• Right hand: fingers go down into table

Question 3

Move you hands for a right sidebending rotation.

Vault hold

Answer 3

• Right hand: index & pinky spread apart; index to ceiling & pinky into table; right side may feel fuller (convex)
• Left hand: index & pinky adduct towards each other

Question 4

Move your hands for left sidebending rotation.

Vault hold

Answer 4

• Left hand: head feels fuller (convexity); index & pinky fingers move apart; index to ceiling & pinky to table
• Right hand: index & pinky fingers move closer together

Question 5

What are the pathologic strain patterns?

Answer 5

• Vertical strains
• Lateral strains
• SBS compression

Question 6

Move your hands for a superior vertical strain.

Vault hold

Answer 6

• Both hands: index fingers move downard (following greater wings of sphenoid)
• Both hands: pinky fingers move toward physician & upward

As if you twist your hands to make you pinkies parallel to your body

Question 7

Move your hands for a inferior vertical strain.

Vault hold

Answer 7

• Both hands: index fingers move up & point to ceiling (following greater wings of sphenoid)
• Both hands: pinkies move down pointing at the patients feet

As if you want to point index fingers straight to ceiling

Question 8

Move your hands for a left lateral strain.

Vault hold

Answer 8

• Index fingers: move right
• Pinky fingers: move left

Pinky fingers move to side it is named (Dx’d) after

Question 9

Move your hands for a right lateral strain.

Answer 9

• Index fingers: move left
• Pinky fingers: move right

Pinky fingers move to side it is named for

Question 10

How does a compression dysfunction feel?

Answer 10

As if you are holding a bowling ball

Question 11

SANS for head and neck

Answer 11

T1-4

Question 12

PANS for head and neck

Answer 12

III, VII, IX, X

Question 13

SANS for heart

Answer 13

T1-T5

Question 14

PANS for heart

Answer 14

Vagus

Question 15

SANS for lungs

Answer 15

T1-T6

Question 16

SANS for upper extremity

Answer 16

T1-T6

Question 17

SANS for lower extremity

Answer 17

T10-L2

Question 18

Anterior chapman point for the heart, upper lungs, and lower lungs.

Answer 18

• Medial 2nd intercostal space
• Medial 3rd intercostal space
• Medial 4th intercostal space

Lateral to sternum

Question 19

What are the posterior chapman points for the heart, upper lung, and lower lung?

Answer 19

• Heart: T2 TP
• Upper lung: T3 TP
• Lower lung: T4 TP

Question 20

Where is the anterior chapman point for the cerebellum?

Answer 20

Tip of coracoid process

Question 21

Where is the posterior chapman point for the cerebellum?

Answer 21

Superior to C1 TP

Question 22

Where is the anterior chapman point for the middle ear?

Answer 22

Medial superior clavicle

supraclavicular

Question 23

Where is the posterior chapman point for the middle ear?

Answer 23

C1 TP

Question 24

Where is the anterior chapman point for the sinuses?

Answer 24

Medial inferior clavicle

Infraclavicular

Question 25

Where is the posterior chapman point for the sinuses?

Answer 25

C2 APs

Between TPs & SP

Question 26

What bones make up the pterion?

Answer 26

• Frontal
• Greater wing of sphenoid
• Parietal
• Temporal

Question 27

What bones make up the asterion?

Answer 27

• Parietal
• Temporal
• Occipital