Exam 3 Flashcards
Thumb abduction test
Isolates strength of abductor pollicis brevis muscle, innervated only by the median nerve
Phalen test
Both wrists fully palmar flexed with dorsal surfaces pressed together for 1 minute
Numbness and paresthesia in median nerve distribution is positive, carpal tunnel
Tinel sign
Strike patients wrist where the median nerve passes under flexor retinaculum
Tingling sensation radiating is positive
Finkelstein
Assesses de quervain’s tenosynovitis
Patient places thumb inside fist, hand is flexed, if pain its positive
Neer test
Forward flex arm 150 degrees while depressing/stabilizing scapula
Hawkins test
Abduct shoulder to 90 degrees, flex elbow 90 degrees, then internally rotate
Hawkins kennedy test
Forward flex shoulder to 90 degrees, flex elbow to 90 degrees, internally rotate to limit
Jobe’s or empty the can test
Abduct shoulder to 90 degrees, flex shoulder forward to 30 degrees, point thumb down, provide resistance
Weakness is a supraspinatus issue
Drop arm test
Patient raise arm to 90 degrees of abduction then lower slowly, if they can’t hold it could be supraspinatus issue
Cross arm test
Forward elevation to 90 degrees and active adduction
Impingement issue if positive
Sulcus sign
Place traction on patient arm, observe sulcus or depression lateral or inferior to acromion
Instability of shoulder
Apprehension test for shoulder
Patient supine, abduction to 90 degrees, elbow flexed 90 degrees, shoulder externally rotated
Relocation test
Immediately after positive apprehension test, posterior force on proximal humerus, shoulder external rotated
Spurling test
Cervical root impingement
Straight leg raising test
Disc herniation with nerve root irritation
Patient lie supine with neck slightly flexed, passive leg raise
Femoral stretch test
Inflammation of nerve root
Patient lies prone and extends him, pain on extension is positive
Thomas test
Flexion contract urges of hip
Patient lies supine, fully extend one left flat, flex other leg with knee to chest
Lifting the extended leg off table indicated hip flexion contracture
Trendelenburg test
Weak hip abductor muscle
Balance on one foot, drop of the iliac crests is positive
Ballottement
Excess fluid or effusion test
Apply downward pressure on suprapatellar pouch
Push patella sharply downward against femur
Bulge sign
Excess fluid, milk medial aspect of knee upward then milk lateral side of the patella
Observe for bulge of returning fluid to the hollow area medial to patella
Mcmurray test
Torn medial or lateral meniscus
Thumb and fingers on either side of joint space, heel held with other hand, fully flex knee and rotate the foot and knee outward to lateral position, extend and flex
Pain, audible or palpable click is positive
Anterior and posterior draw tests
5 mm is abnormal
Lachman test
Anterior crucial ligament integrity
Heel on table
Thompson’s test
Squeeze calf and observe for plantar flexion of achilles
Inversion talar tilt test
Assesses calcaneofibular ligament and anterior talofibular ligament
Greater than 10 degrees of inversion is positive
Version talar tilt test
Deltoid ligament
Greater than 10 degrees of tilt is positive
Anterior drawer ankle test
Anterior talofibular ligament and calcaneofibular ligament
Anterior force to heel while moving the talus anterior
Limb measurement
No more than 1 cm difference between length and circumference
Dupuytren contracture
Contracture involving the flexor hand tendons
Kyphosis
Rounding of the shoulder
Gibbous
More angulated back changes, vertebral fracture related
Burning
Peptic ulcer
Cramping
Gastroenteritis, biliary colic
Colicky
Appendicitis with impacted feces, renal stone
Aching
Appendices irritation
Knifelike
Pancreatitis
Ripping, tearing
Aortic dissection
Gradual. Onset
Infection
Sudden onset
Duodenal ulcer, acute pancreatitis, obstruction, perforation
Dysphagia
Trouble swallowing
They can point to the location usually, constant or stable or progressing
Odynophagia
Pain with swallowing
Sharp/burning- mucosal inflammation
squeezing/cramping- muscular
Color cancer screening
At 50 unless they have a relative who has had colon cancer, then its 40
Itching without a rash
Associated with pancreatic cancer
Bowel sounds
Can be 5-35 per minute
Clicks and gurgles
Increased bowel sounds
Gastroenteritis, early intestinal obstruction, borborgymi
Decreased bowel sounds
Peritonitis, paralytic ileum
Abnormal abdominal bruit
Systole and diastole!
Systole is normal
Describe liver percussion
Start at mid clavicular line and go up until dullness
Same at umbilicus
Dullness in spleen percussion
Splenic enlargement, left sided pleural effusion, stool filled intestine
Which kidney is easier to palpate?
The right kidney
Shifting dullness
Fluid moves the way you have shifted their body- fluid sounds dull!
Bowel sounds in chest wall
Suggest diaphragmatic hernia
Volvulus
Twisting of bowel
Whirl shape! It’s obstructed
Pyloric stenosis
Olive shaped mass RUQ!!
Vomiting dramatically and projectile
Intussuception
Cramping, sausage mass, drawing up knees, stool is currant jelly
Omphalocele
Organs outside of the body
Appendicitis
Cutaneous hypersensitivity Guarding Rebound tenderness Rovsing's Psoas sign Obturator sign
Rovsing’s
Appendicitis
Referred pain when palpating on left side, they feel in on the left
Mcburney’s point
1/3 of the way along the line drawn from the hip to umbilicus
Acute gastroenteritis causes
Mostly viral, rotavirus or norwalk virus
Shigellosis
Bloody mucoid stool
Cholera
Rice water stool
Campylobacter
Raw milk/raw meat
Watery blood diarrhea