Ex2 Flashcards
What is the most Mobil region of the spine?
Cervical
What is the job of the cervical spine?
Maintain head posture while allowing for a great deal of mobility
The lateral mass of C1 is shaped like a _________which allows for what?
Peanut, little rotation
What limits z axis rotation in the occiput-atlas?
Alar ligament
What movement isn’t physiological possible at occiput-atlas ?
Z axis rotation
What restrains Y axis rotation at C1-C2?
Alar lig
What serve to keep a film of synovial fluid applied to those surfaces of the articular cartilages that are not in contact with one another?
Intra-articular meniscoids
At C2-C2 what things are coupled?
ThetaY and Y translation
We here are the steepest arches in the C-spine?
C6-c7
What slows the last few degrees of the positive Flexion (0X)? In the C-spine
Ligamentum flavum
Uncinate processes reduce what? Promote what?
Reduce translation, promote rotation
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What muscle has a high density of muscle spindles ?
RCPMI
Muscle spindles are______?
Sensory receptors
In a whiplash injury what end will move with greater velocity>?
Distal end
The more segments involved in a whiplash injury_________?
Greater velocity of the distal end
What is the most important mechanism of injury in whiplash/?
Patient position
When subject to compressive loads, the first structure to fail is the_______?
Endplate
Rear and frontal impacts are most vulnerable where?
C5-C6
Are ligaments and discs more vulnerable at Lower or higher speeds?
Lower
No signs or symptoms (WAD#?
WAD-0
Complaints of pain, stiffness or tenderness, but no physical signs are noted? (WAD#?)
WAD-1
Neck complaints and the examining physician finds decreed ROM and point tenderness in the neck? (WAD#??)
WAD-2
Neck complaints plus neuro signs such as decreased deep tendon reflexes, weakness and sensory deficits? (WAD#?)
WAD-3
Fracture/dislocation or cord injury (WAD-#?)
WAD-4
What limits extension in the T-spine ?
Spinosus processes
The IVD in the T spine are comparitvly______?
Thin
What part of the spine is the least flexible?
T-spine