Musculoskeletal and Assessments Flashcards
Tendons
Connect muscles to bones
Tibial Torsion
Inward twisting of the tibia causing a child’s foot to turn inward
Gower’s Sign
Seen when a child rises from sitting to standing position with use of hands to push the trunk up indicating generalized muscle weakness.
Meniscal Injury
- athletes still able to compete despite injury likely caused by a twisting maneuver
- feel a “pop” during injury
- tends to “lock up” after the injury leading to reduced ROM
- delayed swelling
Apley Grind Test
Meniscal injury
- Patient lies prone and flexes the affected knee 90 degrees
- Examiner places their hand on the thigh for stabilization of the joint, then with the other hand, hold the heel and rotate internally and externally
- Click, pop, or pain is a positive test.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- connects femur (thigh bone) to tibia (shinbone)
-stabilizes knee during rotational movements
- pain & swelling almost immediately
- “sudden popping” and knee gave way
Lachman Test
- ACL injury
- Knee joint laxity suggestive of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) damage of the knee
- while supine, put one hand on lower thigh and one on lower leg, bed knee 20 degrees, pull lower leg forward while keeping thigh stable, assess for too much range of motion (laxity)
It is more sensitive than the anterior drawer test for ACL damage but not as specific
ACL Management
- refer to ortho
- Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevate (RICE)
- Physical Therapy (PT)
What is a meniscus?
Meniscus is a c-shaped piece of cartilage that acts as a cushion between the shinbone (tibia) and thighbone (femur), each knee has two menisci
McMurray Test
Meniscal Injury
Patient supine, grab patient’s heel with one hand and grab the knee with other hand, internally and externally rotate the knee
Knee pain, click upon manipulation of the knee suggests injury to medial meniscus
Meniscal Injury
Tx
- Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevate (RICE)
- refer to ortho
O’Brien Test
Assesses the labrum of the shoulder
Weakness during this maneuver may indicate labral (ball and socket joint) tear.
Trendelenburg Test (sign)
Assesses weak hip abductor muscles.
Done with having patient stand on one leg. If the pelvis drops on the opposite side, the hip abductor is weak on the leg the patient is standing on.
Varus/Valgus Stress Test
Varus = medal collateral ligament (MCL) injury
Valgus = lateral collateral ligament (LCL) injury
Osteoarthritis (Isolated)
Define
s/s
Degenerative joint disease
cartilage covering the articular surface of joints becomes damaged
- spine, hip, hand, foot, knee
- Joint Pain (weight bearing & hands)
- Stiffness in the morning, but pain usually resolves in an hour
- gradual onset, over the years
- asymmetrical, no warmth, no redness
- Heberden’s nodes (only here)
- Bouchard’s nodes
risk: older age overuse of joints, family history
Osteoarthritis Labs & xray
- ESR negative
- Rheumatoid Factor negative
- Xray shows joint space narrowing
Collateral Ligaments (Valgus and Varus)
Positive find is an increase in laxity of the damaged knee (ligament tear)
Varus stress test of the knee: a test for the medial collateral ligament (MCL)
Valgus stress test of the knee is a lateral collateral ligament
Finkelstein’s Test
De Quervain’s tenosynovitis
Pt grabs thumb and performs ulnar deviation, if this causes pain, test is positive
- inflammation of the tendon and its sheath at the base of the thumb
- abductor pollicis longus
- extensore pollicis brevis tendons
Genu Valgum
Knock knee where knees tilt inward toward each other while the ankles remain spaced apart
Carpal Compression Test
Durkan Test
Pressure with the examiner’s thumb over the patient’s carpal tunnel for 30 seconds elicits symptoms. A positive test will result in pain or numbness distal to the compression.
Carpel Tunnel
Tests (2)
Initial Tx
Phalen’s: think backward prayer hand, flexion wrist test where positive test will cause numbness/tingling in the affected extremity
Tinel’s: percussion / tap technique where tapping on inner wrist causes tingling sensation of median nerve
Tx: Splint or brace
Volar
Relating to the palm of the hand or the sole of the feet
Ligaments
Connect bone to bone
Carpel Tunnel Syndrome
Median nerve compression of the wrist beneath the transverse carpal ligament
Lordosis
Inward curvature of the spine, common in pregnancy and obesity
Phalanges
fingers and toes
Morton’s neuroma
- What is it?
- s/s
- risk factors
- feels like “pebble in their shoe”
- inflammation of the distal nerve of the foot between the third and fourth metatarsals
- factors causing a greater risk: high-heeled shoes, tight shoes obesity dancers runners