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Static Palpation Flashcards

1
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What are the static palpation procedures for active light touch?

A

Sudoriferous Changes
Turgidity
Surface Tonicity

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What are the static palpation procedures for deep touch?

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Tissue Prominency
Palpatory Tenderness
Deep Tonicity

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What is the description of sudoriferous changes?

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Light pressure (tickling the skin)
Feel for moisture changes
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4
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What component of the VSC is sudoriferous changes?

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Neuropathology

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What are the clinical indicators for sudoriferous changes that indicate an acute VSC?

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Slick, Oily, Moist, Tacky

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What are the clinical indicators for sudoriferous changes that indicate a chronic VSC?

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Dry, Rough, Flaky, Scaly, or Blemished

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What is the description of turgidity?

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Start with eyeball pressure

Use pressure on your hand as a learning guide

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What component of VSC is turgidity?

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Histopathology

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What are the clinical indicators of turgidity?

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Fluid filled, inflamed, boggy, spongy or puffy

Saggy, deflated, or flaccid

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What is the description of surface tonicity?

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Broad finger pad contact (fingerprinting)

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For surface tonicity, you are looking for tone change in?

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Surface/superficial musculature

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12
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When performing surface tonicity, push past?

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Any turgidity in previous step

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13
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What component of VSC is surface tonicity?

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Myopathology

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What are the clinical indicators of surface tonicity?

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Tight, contracted, spasm, rigid, firm, stiff, or hypertonic

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Tissue prominency is also called?

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Bony Prominency

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What is the description of tissue prominency?

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Feel for bony structure to be out of place

17
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What type of bony areas are you feeling for with tissue prominency?

A 
Facets/articular pillars
Spinouses
Lamina
TVP's
Mammilaries
18
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What component of the VSC is tissue prominency?

A

Kinesiopathology

19
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What are the clinical indicators of tissue prominency?

A

Prominent, protruding, pronounced, sticking out, or feels out of place

20
Q

What is the description of placatory tenderness?

A

Press on bony structures in question which evaluating for a subluxation

21
Q

Palpatory tenderness elicits?

A

Sclerotogenous pain (neuropathology)

22
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What component of VSC is plapatory tenderness?

A

Neuropathology

23
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What are the clinical indicators of plapatory tenderness?

A 
Response of pain
Discomfort
Tenderness
Grimiace
Wince
Apprehensive body language
24
Q

What is the description of deep tonicity?

A

Strumming the deep paraspinal muscles to feel for tonal changes

25
Q

With deep tonicity there is a potential for?

A

Myotogenous pain (neuropathology)

26
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What are the clinical indicators for deep tonicity?

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Ropiness, tight, contracted, spasm, rigid, firm, stiff, or hypertonic

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