midterm pt.2

Question 1

flaccidity

Answer 1

motor loss

Question 2

paresis

Answer 2

weakness

Question 3

anesthesia

Answer 3

sensory loss

Question 4

paresthesia

Answer 4

sensory impairment

Question 5

dysesthesia

Answer 5

pain

Question 6

1st degree, compression of nerve, no structural damage, local demyelination, loss of motor function but sensory & autonomic fibers unaffected, prognosis = good

Answer 6

neuropraxia

Question 7

2nd degree, prolonged severe compression, degeneration, sensory, motor & autonomic losses, prognosis = good, endoneurial tube intact

Answer 7

axonotmesis

Question 8

3rd-5th degree, severance of part of/ all of nerve trunk, difficulty regenerating, sensory, motor & autonomic losses, surgical repair, prognosis = bad

Answer 8

neurotmesis

Question 9

inflammation of a nerve, constant dull pain

Answer 9

neuritis

Question 10

pain syndrome, abnormal sympathetic reflex, arterial spasm

Answer 10

reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)

Question 11

hydro CI for RSD

Answer 11

tissue dystrophy / lack of vasomotor control

Question 12

tumor composed of nerve cells

Answer 12

neuroma

Question 13

nerve pain, “lighting like”, throbbing

Answer 13

neuralgia

Question 14

AKA tic douloureux (CNV)

Answer 14

trigeminal neuralgia
-opthlamic, maxillary, mandibular

Question 15

causes of intercostal neuralgia

Answer 15

trauma, diabetes, shingles

Question 16

severe pain syndrome, associated with traumatic injury (gunshot wound)

Answer 16

causalgia

Question 17

peripheral nerves ability to regenerate if axon is damaged & cell body intact

Answer 17

Wallerian degeneration

Question 18

the median & radial nerve originate from…

Answer 18

C5-T1

Question 19

the ulnar nerve originates from…

Answer 19

C8-T1

Question 20

complete radial nerve lesion presentation

Answer 20

wrist drop

Question 21

continuation of the posterior cord of the brachial plexus (C5-T1)

Answer 21

radial nerve

Question 22

complete ulnar nerve lesion presentation

Answer 22

claw hand deformity, bishops/ pope hand

Question 23

originates from the medial cord of the brachial plexus (C8-T1)

Answer 23

ulnar nerve

Question 24

site of compression for the ulnar nerve

Answer 24

tunnel of Guyon

Question 25

Froment’s sign is positive with an ulnar nerve lesion, which mm is used in order to hold the object?

Answer 25

flexor pollicis longus

Question 26

complete median nerve lesion presentation

Answer 26

ape hand, oath hand

Question 27

originates from the medial and lateral cords of the brachial plexus (C5-T1)

Answer 27

median nerve

Question 28

neurological condition involving lesion of facial nerve VII that causes weakness or paralysis of muscles on same side of face

Answer 28

Bell’s Palsy

Question 29

rapidly progressing inflammatory disease resulting in demyelination of peripheral nerves - from a vaccine

Answer 29

Guillian-Barre syndrome

Question 30

complete sciatic nerve lesion presentation

Answer 30

foot drop

*steppage gate

Question 31

traction injury of the lower brachial plexus (C8-T1)

Answer 31

Klumpke’s paralysis

Question 32

Klumpke’s results in a combination of which two nerve lesions?

Answer 32

median & ulnar

Question 33

Horners syndrome is an additional complication to which condition?

Answer 33

Klumpke’s paralysis

Question 34

traction injury involving the upper brachial plexus (C5-C6)

Answer 34

Erb’s palsy

Question 35

presentation of Erb’s palsy

Answer 35

waiters tip

Question 36

originates from the L4-S1(L4-S3) nerve roots

Answer 36

sciatic nerve

Question 37

loss of intrinsic foot muscles with a tibial nerve lesion may result in…

Answer 37

claw toe

Question 38

compression of the ulnar nerve as it passes posterior to the medial epicondyle, leading to numbness & tingling, pain in 4th & 5th digits

Answer 38

cubital tunnel syndrome