Static Palpation and Leg Check

Question 1

How many components are there to static palpation?

Answer 1

6

Question 2

What two categories do all components of static palpation fall into?

Answer 2

active light touch and deep touch

Question 3

What is assessed during active light touch?

Answer 3

sudoriferous changes, turgidity, and surface tonicity

Question 4

What is assessed during deep touch?

Answer 4

tissue prominency, palpatory tenderness, and deep tonicity

Question 5

Which component of the VSC is associated with sudoriferous changes?.

Answer 5

neuropathology

Question 6

Which component of the VSC is associated with turgidity?

Answer 6

Histopathology

Question 7

Which component of the VSC is associated with surface tonicity?

Answer 7

Myopathology

Question 8

Which component of the VSC is associated with tissue prominency?

Answer 8

kinesiopathology

Question 9

Which component of the VSC is associated with palpatory tenderness?

Answer 9

neuropathology

Question 10

Which component of the VSC is associated with deep tonicity?

Answer 10

myopathology

Question 11

Which part of static palpation can be described as: light pressure almost as though you are tickling the skin, feeling for moisture changes?

Answer 11

Sudoriferous changes

Question 12

During which part of static palpation does one start with “eyeball” pressure?

Answer 12

Turgidity

Question 13

Which part of static palpation can be described as “fingerprinting?”

Answer 13

surface tonicity

Question 14

Which part of static palpation is assessed when feeling for a bony structure to be out of place?

Answer 14

Tissue prominency

Question 15

Which part of static palpation is assessed when pressing on a bony structure to see if it elicits pain?

Answer 15

Palpatory Tenderness

Question 16

Which part of static palpation is assessed when strumming the deep paraspinal muscles feeling for ropiness/rigidity?

Answer 16

deep tonicity

Question 17

What are the three parts of a leg check that can be performed before touching the patient?

Answer 17

foot flare, inversion/eversion, and plantarflexion/dorsiflexion

Question 18

What is foot flare relative to?

Answer 18

midline

Question 19

What visualization of leg checks is determined relative to a neutral “flat foot?”

Answer 19

Inversion/Eversion

Question 20

What visualization of a leg check is determined relative to a 90 degree angle?

Answer 20

plantarflexion/dorsiflexion

Question 21

What aspect/assessment of a leg check requires contact with the patient?

Answer 21

leg length