Palpation Flashcards
Occiput
- Base of skull (inion)
- Supine/sitting
Temporomandibular Joint
- Palpate side of cheek by ear; open and close mouth
- Supine/sitting
Spine of Scapula
- Feel along the mid to superior aspect of the posterior scapula, level with spinous process of T3-T4
- Prone/sitting
Medial Border of Scapula
- Move fingers out from upper thoracic spine (spinous process of T2-T7) laterally until reach the scapula
- prone/sitting
Inferior angle of scapula
- locate the inferior tip of the scapula
- prone/sitting
acromium
- broad flat area on most lateral aspect of the shoulder
- sitting
humeral head
- move along the humeral shaft to find the humeral head on the lateral side of the upper arm
- sitting
medial and lateral epicondyle of the humerus
- medial larger than lateral on distal end of the humerus
- lateral smaller than medial on distal end of the humerus-
- sitting
olecranon process
- posterior surface on proximal ulna between the medial and lateral epicondyle (funny bone)
- sitting
radial and ulnar styloid process
- ulnar styloid: distal, posterior, medial
- radial styloid: distal, anterior, lateral
- sitting
Illiac crest
- where thumb lands when you place the hand on the hip
- supine/standing
ASIS
- large protrusion anterior to iliac crest
- standing
PSIS
- dimples posterior to iliac crest
- standing
medial and lateral epicondyles of the femur
-the distal medial and lateral prominences of the femur (make sure you are proximal to knee joint)
knee joint line
-a gap/space between the femoral epicondyles and the tibial condyles
medial and lateral condyles of the tibia
-the proximal medial and lateral prominences of the tibia (make sure you are distal to the knee joint)
patella
-round bone anterior to knee joint
tibial tuberosity
-prominence just distal to patellar tendon-centre of tibia
head of the fibula
-lateral prominence distal to knee joint knee; can feel well with ankle eversion
medial and lateral malleolus of the tibia
- medial: large prominence at medial ankle
- lateral: large prominence at lateral ankle
