Random questions Flashcards
What CNs would you associate with Strabismus and what is it?
Squint
Cn III Oculo-Motor; Cn IV Trochlea & Cn VI Aducens
What is Diplopia?
Double Vision
Cn III Oculo-Motor; Cn IV Trochlea & Cn VI Aducens
What is amnosia & which CN is affected?
Cn I Olfactory
Loss of smell
What is Ptosis?
Drooping of upper eye lid
What causes Bell’s Palsy?
Damage to facial nerve, caused by stroke; tumours; surgery; mumps; middle ear infections; head injury, neuritis.
What causes damage to the Vestibulo-Cochlea?
Infection of inner ear
Menieres disease
Meningitis
Encephalitis
What is Trigeminal Neuralgia?
Recurrent and severe facial pain, electric shock type.
Affects any of the areas supplied by Trigeminal Nerve but maxillary and mandibular divisions are most common.
Attacks can be triggered by slightest stimulus - eating; breeze, brushing teeth.
herpes virus can also be cause as lies dormant in nerve fibres.
What is Otitis Media?
Middle ear infection
What nerve innervates the Eustachian Tube?
Motor branch of Glosso-pharyngeal
Vagus nerve
What is TMJ dislocation?
Caused by opening the mouth too wide, yawning or dentistry.
Condyle moves too far forward and gets stuck in front of articular eminence
What is the TMJ?
Joint between mandible and the temporal bone.
Articulation between condyle of mandible and mandibular fossa socket of temporal bone.
What is TMJ syndrome?
Persistent symptoms involving the jaw eg headache, earache
General debilitation without local TMJ symtoms
Why is learning about viscera relevant to CS Therapy?
Case history - may present with pathology of organ.
Need to know about location of organ to inform treatment.
Need to have awareness of organ pathologies.
For each organ need to know the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve supply, sympathetic plexi.
Need to understand emotional connection.
