Questions 1

Question 1

What types of joints has the greatest potential for movement?

Answer 1

Diathrosis

Question 2

What is the first consideration in the biomechanical frame of reference?

Answer 2

Structural stability

Question 3

What is a synovial joint?

Answer 3

Diathrosis

Question 4

What has articular capsule, synovial movement, synovial fluid, capsular ligaments and blood vessels?

Answer 4

Diathrosis

Question 5

What junction between bones that is stabilized by dense connective tissue and allows little to no movement?

Answer 5

Fibrous synathrosis

Question 6

What junction between bones that is stabilized by fibrocartilage or hyaline cartilage?

Answer 6

Cartilaginous synarthosis

Question 7

What has one degree of freedom, humero-ulnar joint; interphalangeal joints?

Answer 7

hinge joint

Question 8

What is rotation of a bone around an axis that goes through it; humeroradial joint, atlanto-axial joint?

Answer 8

Pivot joint

Question 9

What is has two degrees of freedom, radiocarpal joint?

Answer 9

Ellipsoid joint

Question 10

What has three degrees of freedom, glenohumeral joint, hip joint?

Answer 10

ball and socket joint

Question 11

What has flat surfaces sliding or rotating on each other, intercarpal joints?

Answer 11

plane joint

Question 12

What each joint surface is concave in one plane and convex in a perpendicular plane; thumb carpometacarpal joint, sternoclavicular joint

Answer 12

saddle joint

Question 13

What has two degrees of freedom, metacarpophalangeal joints, knee joint?

Answer 13

Condyloid joint

Question 14

What is the amount of force generated by a single muscle contraction?

Answer 14

muscle strength

Question 15

How should you apply resistance or pressure during manual muscle testing?

Answer 15

Gradually increasing over a few seconds to allow the client to recruit all motor units.

Question 16

If a client is instructed to move a limb in a motion that goes parallel to the floor (around an axis that is perpendicular to the floor) this is a manual muscle test that is?

Answer 16

gravity minimized

Question 17

What if your client can move a limb through full AROM against gravity, but can take no resistance, their muscle grade would be?

Answer 17

3/5

Question 18

What body parts does the therapist use for palpation of a client?

Answer 18

The pads of the index and middle fingers (sometimes thumb)

Question 19

What is the resistance that the therapist feels at the end of passive range of motion’;

Answer 19

end feel

Question 20

What does the first number usually mean when recording ROM measurements?

Answer 20

The closest the client can get to an anatomic position

Question 21

In the biomechanical frame of reference when does edema reduction get addressed?

Answer 21

before range of motion and before strengthening