Subluxation Mock Midterm

Question 1

T/F: Warmth receptors are myelinated?

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Before the lateral spinothalamic tract, afferent sensory input synapses where?

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

Epinepherine

Question 5

Which of the following is false about the nervoscope?

Answer 5

Tells where to adjust

Question 6

T/F: Heat swing is a shift over a neurological field?

Answer 6

False

Question 7

What of the following is false?

Answer 7

Throacic glide speed is 2 seconds with breaks 1/2 inch below mid thermocouple

Question 8

What is not an advantage of the tytron?

Answer 8

Most effective for break analysis

Question 9

T/F: Unlike the nervoscope, the tytron barrels never touch the patient?

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Which fossa reading procedure is correct?

Answer 10

“F” key, R barrel in R fossa, R barrel in L fossa

Question 11

The gold standard for establishing a pattern is?

Answer 11

Three scans 12 hours apart

Question 12

Which is not a common cause of a stress reading?

Answer 12

Excitement

Question 13

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

Answer 13

T1

Question 14

You’re palpating a 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

Static palpation does not satisfy which component of the VSC?

Answer 16

Neuropathology

Question 17

Full spine scan for the tytron should take?

Answer 17

26 seconds

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Kinesiopathology

Scleretogenous

Question 19

Aaron is your new patient that is in pain after falling off a balcony. While gathering the whole story, he stated how he was heavily drinking with his friends. The pain is in the thigh after landing on a chain and hitting his L quadriceps which has been spasming since. What applies?

Answer 19

Myopathology
Histopathology
Myotogenous

Question 20

Fred wants to run a marathon tomorrow, so he is in for a tune up to fix this neck pain when you notice a break a C5 and decreased cervical ROM. What applies?

Answer 20

Kinesiopathology
Neuropathology
Scleretogenous