Cervical Spine: Examination

Question 1

DNF endurance: Should be able to maintain position without

Answer 1

• losing chin tuck
• head touching hand

Question 2

DNF endurance: MDC

Answer 2

17 seconds

Question 3

DNF endurance: norm (males)

Answer 3

39 seconds

Question 4

DNF endurance: norm (females)

Answer 4

29 seconds

Question 5

DNF endurance: place in chin tuck approximately (dist) off table

Answer 5

1 inch

Question 6

CCFT: Inflatable cuff to __ mmHg

Answer 6

20 mmHg

Question 7

CCFT: Perform small chin tuck and increase pressure by 2 mmHg increments

Hold (time) at a time up to (pressure)

Answer 7

2 seconds at a time

up to 30 mmHg

Question 8

AA stability test: for which ligament

Answer 8

transverse

Question 9

Vertebrobasilar Ischemia: vertebral artery is most limited with these motions

Answer 9

engrange rotation or rotation/extension

Question 10

This is the most common cause of progressive spinal cord and nerve root compression

Answer 10

chronic cervical degeneration

Question 11

Spondylytic changes can result in stenosis of

Answer 11

• spinal canal
• lateral recess
• foramina

Question 12

These can compress the spinal cord

Answer 12

• osteophytes
• thickening of ligamentum flavum
• thickening of PLL

Question 13

DTRs: Biceps

Answer 13

C5

Question 14

DTRs: Brachioradialis

Answer 14

C6

Question 15

DTRs: Triceps

Answer 15

C7

Question 16

Sensitivity of Hoffman’s reflex

Answer 16

94%

Question 17

(+) Hoffman’s test

Answer 17

flexion of thumb and index finger

Question 18

Inverted supinator sign: how to

Answer 18

strike tendon of brachioradialis near the radial styloid