Sample Final

Question 1

True/False: Warmth receptors are myelinated.

Answer 1

False, cold receptors are myelinated

Question 2

Before the lateral spinothalamic tract, afferent sensory input synapses in the:

Answer 2

Dorsal horn

Question 3

Another name for the insular cortex is?

Answer 3

Isle of Reil

Question 4

What is released at the tunica media causing vascular constriction?

Answer 4

Epinephrine

Question 5

True/False: Heat swing is a shift over a neurological field.

Answer 5

False, heat swings are multisegmental, while breaks are over a neurological field

Question 6

Cervical glide speed is ____ seconds/segment with breaks located _____.

Answer 6

3 sec; 1/4” below mid thermocouple

Question 7

Thoracic glide speed is ____ seconds/segment with breaks located _____.

Answer 7

2 sec; 1/2” above mid thermocouple

Question 8

What are the advantages to using the Tytron?

Answer 8

Charts progress well, highly reproducible and well-researched

Question 9

True/False: Unlike the nervoscope, Tytron barrels never touch the patient.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What is the proper way to conduct a fossa reading?

Answer 10

“F” key, right barrel in right fossa, right barrel in left fossa

Question 11

The gold standard for establishing a pattern is:

Answer 11

3 scans over a 24 hour period evenly spaced

Question 12

What are common causes of a stress reading?

Answer 12

Pain, caffeine and drugs

Question 13

While scanning a patient, you find a break between T1 and T2, what segment is indicated?

Answer 13

T1

Question 14

You’re palpating your friend when you come across a patch of oily skin, what does this indicate?

Answer 14

Acute VSC

Question 15

What is the most cost-effective way to objectify neurological function?

Answer 15

Instrumentation

Question 16

When conducting a leg check, what should be used as a reference?

Answer 16

Seam of the shoe

Question 17

True/False: X-Rays are taken anterior to posterior and are analyzed in the surgical view.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Static palpation doesn’t satisfy which component of the VSC?

Answer 18

Neuropathology

Question 19

Glide time for the Tytron should be?

Answer 19

26 seconds

Question 20

X-Rays don’t satisfy which component of the PART system?

Answer 20

P- Pain and tenderness

Question 21

Which is not a Tytron scan?
A. Pattern C. Break
B. Adaptive D. Stress

Answer 21

C. Break

Question 22

When documenting nervoscope readings, what must be recorded?

Answer 22

Level involved, direction and amplitude

Question 23

True/False: Pathophysiology contains no components of the PART system.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Where does a nervoscope break occur for L3?

Answer 24

Lower 25% of involved segment (L3)

Question 25

While nervoscoping a patient, a break occurred between T8-T9, which segment is indicated?

Answer 25

T9

Question 26

Decreased P-A extension, decreased left rotation and decreased left lateral bend results in what listing?

Answer 26

PLS

Question 27

SCP for T4 decreased extension, increased right rotation and decreased right lateral bend is?

Answer 27

Transverse

Question 28

True/False: Instrumentation indicates where there is a neuro-vascular dysfunction occurring.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Nervoscope break occurs between T2-T3, what segment is indicated?

Answer 29

T2

Question 30

What warrants taking an X-ray?

Answer 30

Spine trauma and pain/neurological symptoms

Question 31

Decreased rotation, increased right rotation, decreased right lateral bend and stacking on right bending will result in what listing?

Answer 31

PLI-T

Question 32

When performing a prone leg check, always check for asymmetry in:

Answer 32

Inversion, eversion, foot flare, dorsiflexion and plantar flexion

Question 33

Which misalignments can be obtained from the APOM view?

Answer 33

C1 laterality, C2 rotation and occiput wedging

Question 34

True/False: A larger pedicle shadow on the right indicates the spinous has deviated to the right.

Answer 34

False

Question 35

What are the visual indicators for posteriority?

Answer 35

Atypical disc wedging, stacking of continuous segments and degenerative changes to endplate or disc

Question 36

What is the final component of the atlas listing?

Answer 36

Rotation on side of laterality

Question 37

During a patient exam, you find decreased extension of T4 on T5, decreased right rotation and no change in lateral bend. What is the listing?

Answer 37

T4 PR

Question 38

A 63-year-old female patient in a wheelchair comes into your office with an ankle sprain and a broken wrist. After your initial consult, you inform the patient that this will take 10 weeks or longer to heal. She seems upset, as she has a bridge tournament to participate in. Which chiropractic principle might you refer to that best explains the time it takes to heal?

Answer 38

24- Limits of adaptation

Question 39

Which portion of the VSC satisfies the "R" in the PART system?

Answer 39

Kinesiopathology

Question 40

Signs of scoliosis.

Answer 40

Skin fold asymmetry, Relative height of scapular inferior angles and a Cobb angle reading 5 degrees

Question 41

What causes tissue prominency?

Answer 41

Osseous misalignment

Question 42

Divergence of the APL and OPL results in:

Answer 42

AS C1/atlas

Question 43

Jeff comes into your office complaining of pain in his right hand. You take the proper x-rays and notice a fractured 5th distal phalange. VSC?

Answer 43

Kinesiopathology and scleretogenous

Question 44

Aaron is your new patient that is in pain after falling off a balcony. While gathering the story, he stated he was drinking heavily with friends. The pain is in the thigh after landing on a chair and hitting his left quad, which has been spasming since. VSC?

Answer 44

Myopathology, Histopathology and myotogenous

Question 45

Fred wants to run a marathon tomorrow, so he is in for a tune up to fix his "neck pain," when you notice a break at C5 and decreased cervical range of motion. VSC?

Answer 45

Kinesiopathology, Neuropathology and scleretogenous

Question 46

Patient comes in with a biceps strain, decreased left cervical rotation and nervoscope shows a break to the right of C5. VSC?

Answer 46

Kinesiopathology, neuropathology and myotogenous

Question 47

A 40-year-old woman is kicked in the leg by a horse, she has bruising and is in pain. VSC?

Answer 47

Myopathology and myotogenous

Question 48

Baily is a volleyball player that comes to your office with a dislocated 3rd digit on her right hand, it is swollen and painful. VSC?

Answer 48

Kinesiopathology, Histopathology and Myotogenous

Question 49

Tim presents with a right decreased patellar reflex and a right limp.

Answer 49

Myopathology and neuropathology

Question 50

Which component of the VSC doesn't satisfy the "P" or "T" in the PART system?

Answer 50

Kinesiopathology