Midterm Flashcards
Palpitation: Clinical Application
- PT Assessment: defining area of treatment, confirming location/verify structures, provocation of symptoms, assessment of mobility
- PT Treatment: mobilization, soft tissue relaxation, pain relief
- palpitation can detect if patient is activating muscles he may not supposed to be-steady hand used as reminder to not use those which can relax patient and provide pain relief
Planes of Movement
- frontal/coronal: splits body into front and back (adduction and abduction-pertain only to appendages)
- sagittal: splits body in right and left (flexion and extension)
- transverse: splits body in top and bottom (superior and inferior)
Medial Rotation
- occur at shoulder and hip joints
- limb turns in toward midline
Lateral Rotation
- occur at shoulder and hip joints
- limb swings away from midline
Circumduction
- possible only at shoulder and hip joints
- combo of flexion, extension, adduction and abduction together creating a cone shaped movement
Lateral Flextion
- occurs only at axial skeleton
- ex: neck or vertebral column bends laterally to the side
Protraction and Retraction
- pertain to scapula, clavicle, head, and jaw
- protraction occurs when one of these structures moves anteriorly
- retraction is movement posteriorly
Axial Skeleton
- skeletons center
- cranium, vertebral column, ribs, sternum and hyoid
Apendicular Skeleton
-arms, legs, pectoral girdle (scapula and clavicle), and pelvic girdle (hips)
Ellipsoid Joint
- oval shaped end o fone bone articulating with elliptical basin of another bone
- permits flexion/extension and abduction/adduction
Saddle Joint
- modified ellipsoid joint composed of convex and concave articulating surfaces
- ex trapezium and first metacarpal
Pivot Joint
- designed to allow one bone to rotate around the surface of another bone
- ex: first and second cervical vertebrae allow rotation of head
Gliding Joint
- between two flat surfaces
- ex: between carpal bones
4 Major Systems PTs Screen
- integumentary
- musculoskeletal
- cardiopulmonary
- nervous
Tendons
- connect muscles to bones
- becomes taut or slack depending on if muscle belly is contracted
Ligament
- connects bone to bone at joints for stability
- dense, taut feel and remain taut throughout all states of contraction
Fascia
- continuous sheet of fibrous membrane located beneath the skin and around muscles and organs
- two types: superficial and deep
- superficial: thickness varies; spatial layer filled with other tissue
- deep: more complex design; surrounding muscle bellies and separating them into functional groups