Neurologic- nerve and DRG compression

Question 1

What is a reversible neurobiomechanical joint dysfunction as local or systemic pathology which alters homeostasis and diminishes adaptive efficiency of whole person?

Answer 1

Nerve interference

Question 2

What is a reversible physiopathologic state with errors in energy expenditure that interfere with nervous system function and thus organ function resulting in decreased productivity, reactivity and regulation of organs?

Answer 2

Dysponesis

Question 3

Hidden etiology interferes with nervous system and organ function

Answer 3

Dysponesis

Question 4

Who came up with the 3 types of nerve interference?

Answer 4

Murphy

Question 5

What are the 3 types of nerve interference?

Answer 5

Reflex
Irritation
Compression

Question 6

Who came up with the neurologic theories of receptor stimulation, nerve compression, reflex effects and supraspinal effects?

Answer 6

Haldeman

Question 7

What is pressure on a nerve either direct or indirect?

Answer 7

Neurothlipsis

Question 8

Impinging a nerve usually increases of decreases function due to irritation?

Answer 8

Increases

Question 9

Who stated that subluxation can cause spinal nerve root compression and injury?

Answer 9

Hadley

Question 10

What areas are most susceptible to nerve compression with subluxation according to Hadley?

Answer 10

Cervical and lumbar

Question 11

What are MOST sensitive to compression?

Answer 11

Nerve roots

Question 12

What do nerve roots lack that peripheral nerves have?

Answer 12

Connective sheath

Question 13

Nerve roots and sheath occupy what percent of the IVF cross-sectional diameter?

Answer 13

35-50%

Question 14

What percent is the remaining IVF diameter of loose areolar CT, adipose and other vascular and neural structures?

Answer 14

50-65%

Question 15

What may displace neural complex laterally into IVF by traction?

Answer 15

Spinal distortion

Question 16

What is an accessory ligament especially common in the lumbar spine that compartmentalize the IVF into a lattice that vessels and nerves must thread through?

Answer 16

Transforaminal ligaments

Question 17

TFLs may decrease the functional S-I diameter of the IVF by how much?

Answer 17

1/3

Question 18

Who came up with the ectopic impulse hypothesis?

Answer 18

Korr

Question 19

What hypothesis states that deformation sites can be sites where ectopic nerve impulses are generated?

Answer 19

Ectopic impulse hypothesis- spontaneous depolarizations that give rise to both orthodromic and antidromic impulses

Question 20

Orthodromic impulses are in the ______ direction

Answer 20

Proper

Question 21

Antidromic impulses are in the _____ direction

Answer 21

Wrong

Question 22

Lateral transmission aka

Answer 22

Ephaptic or cross talk

Question 23

What are 5x more sensitive to mechanical stimulation than peripheral nerves?

Answer 23

DRG

Question 24

A significant irritating factor to the DRG would be?

Answer 24

Injury/inflammation of the z-joints

Question 25

When inflamed, DRG become ______ and can give rise to spontaneous discharges

Answer 25

Hyperexcitable

Question 26

Spinal cord compression/ traction aka

Answer 26

Compressive myelopathy

Question 27

BJ Palmer is credited with the beginnings of what hypothesis through his HIO technique and related research?

Answer 27

Spinal cord compression hypothesis

Question 28

What are common myelopathy symptoms?

Answer 28

HA
Numbness and paresthesia
Quadriplegia
Transient Paraplegia

Question 29

Subluxations in the upper cervical spine can cause stabilizing attachments of the _______ to distort the spinal cord by traction, affecting lateral columns. Who hypothesized this?

Answer 29

Dentate ligaments; Grostic

Question 30

What muscle has a tissue bridge between Occ and C1?

Answer 30

RCP minor

Question 31

What muscles have a tissue bridge between C1 and C2?

Answer 31

RCP major and Oblique capitis inferior

Question 32

What can increase the risk of SIDS in some children?

Answer 32

Upper cervical misalignment