Low Back Pain Evaluation Flashcards
Low back pain is the ________ most common symptom-related reason for visits to primary care physicians.
Second
________ variables are stronger predictors of long-term disability than anatomical findings found on imaging studies.
Psychosocial
What are the potentially serious conditions that you want to rule out in someone with low back pain?
Fracture, tumor, infection, cauda equina syndrome
________ is a symptom that should make you suspicious of cancer.
Night pain (unrelieved by change of position)
The term for arthritis of the spine is ________.
Spondylosis
An anterior displacement of a vertebra on the one beneath it is called a ________.
Spondylolisthesis
A fracture in the pars interarticularis is known as a ________.
Spondylolysis
A local, segmental, or generalized narrowing of the vertebral canal by bone or soft tissue is called ________.
Spinal stenosis
Impairment of a nerve root usually causing neurological symptoms related to that nerve root level is called ________.
Radiculopathy
A loss of bowel and bladder control and numbness in the groin, associated with weakness in the lower extremities is known as ________.
Cauda equina syndrome
If a patient is standing very erect and does not like to flex at the hips due to shooting pain, you should be thinking of a potential ________.
Disc pathology
The annulus fibrosus is innervated by the ________ nerve.
Sinuvertebral
Schmorl’s nodes represent herniation of the ________ into the adjacent end plate.
Nucleus pulposus
If a patient does not like to extend, you should be thinking of potential ________.
Degenerative disc disease
