Head and Neck Diagnosis + Managment Flashcards
What are some history questions that should be asked for a cervical spine Exam?
- patient age b/c OA after 60
- mech of injury
- trauma
- losss of consciousness
- headache, dizziness nausea, trouble speaking, double vision
- numbness, tingling or weakness
- type of work, typical posture, sleeping posture
What regions do you inspect?
- head and neck
- posture of head neck and shoulder
What ROM should be tested in a cervical spine exam?
- Flexion
- Extension
- Lateral Flexion
- Rotation
- TMJ ROM
do AROM and PROM
What should be palpated during a cervical exam?
- mandible and TMK
- masseter/parotids
- submandibular gland
- submental; gland
- thyroid gland
- trachea/larynx
- lymph nodes
- clavicle and SC joint
- SCM and scalenes
- mastoid process
- carotid artery
- articular pillars
- facet joints
- spinous process
- upper trapezius
- levator scapulae
- splenius cervicalis/ capitis
- semspinalis capitis
- suboccipitals
- upper rib motion
- supraclavicular fossa
- clavicle
What ADL’s should be checked in a cervical exam?
- Breathing
- Swallowing
- looking up and down
- shoulder activity
What action tests C1 and C2 myotomes?
cervical flexion
What action tests C3 myotomes?
Cervical Side Flexion
What action tests C3 myotomes?
cervical lateral flexion
What action tests C4 myotomes?
Trpezius elevation
What action tests C5 myotomes?
Shoulder abduction
What action tests C6 myotomes?
Elbow Flexion and Wrist extension
What action tests C7 myotomes?
Elboe extension and wrist flexion
What action tests C8 myotomes?
Finger flexion
What action tests T1 myotomes?
Finger abduction
What DTR tests for C6 nerveroot?
Biceps and brachioradialis
What DTR tests for C7 nerve root?
Triceps
NO VBI TESTING during exam
DO NOT VBI test`
What cluster of test witll be used if a sprain or strain is suspected?
- cervical distraction
- cervical AROM/PROM and Muscle Test
- O’Donoghue maneuver (cervical AROM/PROM RROM)
- scalene cramp test (diff between scalene strain or scalene triggerpoint)
- kemps
What is the orthopedic cluster for Cervical joint disc and facet injury?
- cervical compression and distraction
- maximal cervical compression test
- spurlings
- jacksons
What cluster of orthopedic tests would be used for Cervical Instability?
- alar ligmanet stress test
- lateral shear test
- sharp-pulser test
- transverse ligament stress test (Rust sign)
- xray if suspect instability
What cluster of orthopedic tests for cervical radiculopathy/Nerve tension?
- cervical compression distraction
- brachial plexus compression test (compress supraclavicular fossa with patients arms out like roo’s test)
- bakody’s sign
- soto-hall test (like slump test but jsut for neck, also supine)
- upper limp tensioning tests
- cough, sneeze, valsava
What is the orthopaedic cluster for TOS?
- Adson’s
- Wrights
- Eden’s
- Roo’s
What are the coupled motions of the cervical spine?
- lateral flexion coupled with same side rotation
What is a cervical Sprain/Strain?
- soft tissue damage ass w/ ligament or muscle tearing or stretching
- ass. w/ Whiplash associated disorder
- facets affects
- reversal or straightening of the lordodic curve
What is damaged with an hyperextension cervical sprain/strain?
- anterior tissues
- ALL
- longus coli
- SCM
- scalenes
- TMJ
What is damaged with a hyperflexion sprain/strain?
- damages posterior neck tissue
- nuchaal ligament
- interspinous ligament
- trapezius
- levator scap
- suboccipitals
- TMJ
What are the different gradings of Cervical Sprains and Strains?
- Grade 1
Grade 2
- Grade 3
What is a grade 1 cervical sprain/Strain?
- mild swelling
- point tenderness
- no bruising
- mild stretch but no instability
- negative stress tests but pain at end of ROM
- Functionally better in 2 - 14 days
- Structural recovery takes 6 - 30 days
What is a grade 2 sprain/strain?
- mild/moderate swelling
- 11 - 90% of tissue damage
- some instability in stress tests
- Functional Recovery in 14 days to 2 months
- Structural healing in 1 to 3 months
What is a grade 3 cervical Sprain/Strain?
- severe brusinig and swelling
- fracture adn dislocation must be ruled out
- complete tearing of muscles and ligaments
- instability seen with testing
- almost complete loss of ROM
- Fucntional Recovery time 1 - 3 months
- Structural Healing time 6 months+
Risk Factors for Cervical Sprain Strain?
- prior cerviocal injury
- overuse
- postural
- sudden movement
- trauma
Cervical Sprain/Strain History?
- mechanism of injury
- prior injury
- pain, cervical and shoulder
- delayed onset muscle soreness (1 - 2 days)
- pain radiates into shoulder/arm nondermatomal
- Headache
- difficulty sleeping
- 5 D and 3 Ns
Cervical Strain/Sprain Physical signs?
- Observe: postural change, stiff neck, swelling brusing
- Palpation: local tenderness, joint dysfucntion, muscle spasm, hypertonicity
- ROM: Strain: pain with AROM and RROM
Sprain: pain with PROM and AROM
joint capsule: pain in multiple directions
DDx of Cervical Sprain/Strain?
- Stress/avulsion fracture/dislocation
- Cervical radiculopathy
- disc herniation
- Inflammatory RA
- Discogenic pain syndrome
- Spondylosis
- Hemarthrosis (vascular damage) or hematoma
- TOS
Orthopedic Cluster for cervical sprain/strain?
- cervical distraction/compression
- AROM, PROM, RROM
- jacksons
- spurlings
- mac formainal compression
* lcoal neck pain = sprain strain
- referal = radiculopathy or IVF encroachment