Orthopedics

Question 1

Most common brachial plexus injury

Answer 1

Erb’s palsy

Question 2

clinical features and nerve injury for Erb Palsy

Answer 2

C5 and C6

• flaccid arm
• asymmetric moro reflex
• waiter’s tip

Question 3

clinical features and nerve injury for Klumpke’s palsy

Answer 3

C7 and C8

- claw hand

Question 4

Nursemaid’s elbow

Answer 4

subluxation of the radial head

- pulling a toddler upward

Question 5

Torticollis

Answer 5

tilting of head to one side

Question 6

management of torticollis

Answer 6

stretching exercises

Question 7

what is associate with Atlantoaxial instability

Answer 7

Down syndrome
skeletal dysplasia
Klippel-Feil syndrome

Question 8

Klippel-Feil syndrome

Answer 8

failure of normal vertebral segmentation that results in relative fusion

Question 9

what deformity is associated with Klippel-Feil syndrome

Answer 9

Sprengel’s deformity

Question 10

Sprengel’s deformity

Answer 10

congenital deformity of scapula

Question 11

What can prevent the progression of scoliosis

Answer 11

brace

Question 12

Scheuermann’s kyphosis

Answer 12

3 consecutive vertebrae are wedged

Question 13

Spondylolysis

Answer 13

stress fracture in the pars interarticularis

bone connects superior and inferior articular facets of vertebral body

Question 14

Spondylolisthesis

Answer 14

body of vertebra involved in spondylolysis slips anteriorly

Question 15

Diskitis

Answer 15

infection or inflammation of intervertebral disk

Question 16

Most common organism to cause diskitis

Answer 16

Staph aureus

Question 17

what increases pain for spondylolysis

Answer 17

hyperextension of back