Conditions Flashcards
Conditon: Aggravating Factors
- Extension
- Prolonged standing or walking
- Walking downhill
- Lying flat
** Anything that loads the posterior column **
Spinal Stenosis
Condition:
- Swelling of costal cartilages
- Anterior chest pain, loacilzed and superficial
- Agg: breathing and trunk movement
- Usually resolves in 12 wks
Tietze’s Syndrome
Condition: Lumbar axial pain that may refer to the LE, pain increased with extension and lateral rotation
Lumbar Facet Arthropathy
Condition: Represents a pathologic state in which the function of the spinal nerve roots is affected
Lumbar Radiculopathy
Condition:
- Constant or Intermittent pain
- Low grade ache
- Leg sx rare
- Morning stiffness/pain
- Localized in low back, rare for pain to radiate
Degenerative Disc Disease
Condition: Aggravating Factors
- s/p vigorous activity
- Static posture
Functional Instability
Condition: acceleration-deceleration injury to the neck, injury to soft tissues
Whiplash injury
Condition: also known as a limbus fx, caused by excessive compression or distraction and present like a disc herniation
Apophyseal ring fx
Can think of it as a salter harris fx to the growth plate in the vertebral body
Condition: Presensts with excessive IR
Anteversion
Condition: Degenerative changes of the spine
Spondylosis
Condition: Objective
- Limited ROM +/- mm guarding
- Limited B SB
- PPIVM: segmentally limited
- PAIVM: limited, painful
- NO neuro sx
- Palpable tenderness and mm spasm
Cerivcal Facet Syndrome
Condition: MOI of sudden unguarded movement (i.e. flexion or rotation)
Acute Facet Joint
Condition: Symptoms
- Flexion does not ease symtpoms
- Rarely have back sx
Vascular Claudication
Condition:
AROM to end range limited by stiffness/spasm
Subacute stage of MVA/whiplash
Condition: Subjective Exam
- Ache/stiffness
- Cloward signs
- Pin in upper neck, head, face, top of shoulder, scapula, posterior upper arm
- May or may not have distal sx
Cervical Disc Herniation
Condition:
- 50 + yo
- Kyphotic position
- Extension activities reduc stress on vertebral body
Thoracic Vertebral Fracture
Condition:
- MOI: Sudden neck movement
- Synovial capsule impingement w/in facet
- Localized pain +/- mm spasm
- Acute torticollis
Acute Cervical Facet Syndrome
Condition: Objective Exam
- Skin color or temperature changes
- Hair loss
- Peripheral pulses absent
- LE cramping/tightness
Vascular Claudication
Condition: Widening of the pars interarticularis fx with increased pain and radiculopathy
Spondylolisthesis
Condition:
History includes sudden onset of localized back pain that may resolve with continued activity
Protrusion
Condition: Results in increased intervertebral segment motion
Spondylolysis/Spondylolisthesis
Condition:
- Upper T-spin (T3-7)
- Flat or Reduced thoracic kyphosis
Flexion movement impairment
Condition:
- Stiffness > 30 min
- Back pain improved w/exercise NOT rest
- Awakening during 2nd half of night due to back pain
- Alternating butt pain
- Less than 2.5 cm of chest expansion
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Condition: Objective Exam
- Flat lumbar posture
- Painful/limited extension
- Pain with SB on involved side
Spinal Stenosis
Flat back posture unload the posterior column
Condition: ASIS more lateral and PSIS more medial
Outflare
Condition: Easing Factors
- Flexion
- Sitting or squatting
- Walking uphill
- Bike riding
Spinal Stenosis
Condition: pounding headache associated with dizziness and visual distrubances
Vascular headache
Condition:
- Slight flexed posture
- Lateral Shift +/-
- Limited ROM/Gaurded movement
- Centralization of pain
Posterolateral Disc Herniation
Condition
- Tightness anywhere on the cranium or suboccipital region
- Bilat and trigeminal distribution
- W > M
Tension HA
Condition: Body chart can include unilateral pain, buttock pain, LBP, or posterior leg pain to knee
SI Joint Dysfunction
Condition:
- Lateral curve w/o rotational component
- Can lead to mm spasm, inflammation, injury
- Can be corrects with position changes
- Tx underlying cause and it will resolve
Functional Scoliosis
Condition: Subjective
- Bilat parathesia in glove distribution
- Intermittent posterior thoracic pain or scapula pain
- Sx worst in evening and with thoracic slump/flexion
- Position of comfort is laying completely flat
T4 Syndrome
Condition: head and face pain arising from the UCS
Cervicogenic headache
Cervical Disc Herniation: Pain at back of neck, head and face
Upper C-spin
Condition:
- M > F
- 40-50
- Occupation involves lifitng, sitting, oversure
Degenerative Disc Disease
Cervical Disc Herniation: Pain at base of neck and top of shld
C4-5
Condition: Pain worse with incline walking but improved with decline walking
Vascular Claudication
Condition: Pt. may have back pain, leg pain, or a combination of the two
Spondylolisthesis
Condition:
- Lateral curve w/rotational component
- Can be congential/idiopathic
- Can’t be corrected by positioning
- Can cause wedge shaped vertebra
Structural Scoliosis
Condition:
- Hx of neck or shld pain
- Unilateral, associated pain in neck, shld, arm
- Variable pain, moderate intensity, dependent on movement
- NOT throbbing
Cervicogenic HA
Condition: Sudden chest pain, radiationg to back that is unrelenting (emergency situation)
Dissecting thoracic aneurism
Condition: Inflammatory response at pubic symphysis and ischial rami caused by susatined or repetitive trauma to the pubic symphysis
Osteitis Pubis
Condition:
- C/T junction or high T-spine segments
- Excessive kyphosis
- vertebral bodies may become wedge shaped
Extension movement impairment
Condition: Consists of radicular pain in a dermatomal distribution in combination with N/T and motor weakness
Lumbar Radiculopathy
Condition: Subjective
- Pain worse distally w/dermatomal pattern
- Possible cloward sign
- Pain can be constant
Cervical acute nerve root
Condition:
- poor posture: hangs on ligaments/posterior pelvic tilt
- weak or hypermobile hip/spine
- weak gluteals and abdominal wall
- prolapse
Weakness of pelvic girdle
Condition: Symptoms
- Localized vauge pain
- Back and leg pain (can be bilateral)
- Presence of N/T and weakness in LEs
- Cramping
Spinal Stenosis
Condition: Objective
- Increased cervical lordosis and C/T kyphosis
- Flattened/restricted upper T-spine
- Minimal thoracic movement w/single arm elevation
- Local tenderness and sx reproduced w/mobilization between T2-7
- Local hypomobility
- ULTT/Slump +
T4 Syndrome
Condition:
- UE/LE weakness
- B&B dysfunction
- Gait disturbance
- Due to cord compression
Cervical myelopathy
Condition: Starts as stress fx on the pars interarticularis, typically L5 followed by L4
Spondylolysis
Condition:
- 20s-50s
- Poorly localized dull ache in back
- May have buttock pain
- Increased pain in AM
- Unloads spine from sit to stand
Protrusion
Condition:
- > 55 yo
- neck and arm pain
- painful/restricted ROM
- sensory/motor defects
- intrinsic hand mm wasting/loss of hand dexterity
Cervical Stenosis
Condition:
Agg: neck movement, posture, position,
Ease: meds, modalities, change in posture, lying down, tx
Decreased ROM
Pattern: occipital/suboccipital
Cervicogenic HA
Condition:
- Localized pain
- Reduced motion w/respiration, coughing, and sneezing
- Local mm spasm
Rib subluxation
Anterior = concavity of rib posteriorly
Posterior = prominence of rib posteriorly