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Question 1

What two parts of the AC joint must you palpate?

Answer 1

1. Acromion process

2. Coracoid process

Question 2

WHat is this test: arm extended in full supination with shoulder flexed. Elevate arm against resistance?

Answer 2

Speeds

Question 3

What epicondyle is involved in golfers elbow?

Answer 3

Medial

Question 4

What are the muscles of the rotator cuff

Answer 4

Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Teres minor
Subscapularis

Question 5

What muscle group attaches to the medial epicondyle?

Answer 5

Flexor/pronator group

Question 6

What causes a winged scapula?

Answer 6

Paralysis of serrated anterior due to long thoracic nerve lesion

Question 7

What is broken in a colle’s fracture

Answer 7

Distal radius (dinner fork abnormality)

Question 8

What is this test:Passive flexion with arm probated and scapoula is stabilized

Answer 8

Neers “near to the ear”

Question 9

What is finkelstein’s test?

Answer 9

Fist over thumb and ulnar deviation

Question 10

What score would movement with full resistance receive?

Answer 10

5

Question 11

What is this test: flexion of elbow and shoulder to 90* in pronation, then assist patient into internal rotation assessing for pain?

Answer 11

Hawkins test (chicken wing)

Question 12

What score would movement against gravity only receive?

Answer 12

3

Question 13

What score would visible contraction, no joint movement receive?

Answer 13

1

Question 14

How would you test median nerve motor function?

Answer 14

Making three sign or OK sign]

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Question 15

What score would no muscle contraction receive?

Answer 15

0

Question 16

What two tests test for glenohumeral instability?

Answer 16

Sulcus sign

Apprehension and Relocation Test

Question 17

What rotator cuff muscle does internal rotation

Answer 17

Subscapularis

Question 18

What nerve does most of the back of the hand and the side of the thumb (minus finger tips)

Answer 18

Radial

Question 19

What nerve does sensory for the whole pinky finger and half of the 4th finger

Answer 19

Ulnar

Question 20

What is nursemaids’ elbow

Answer 20

Subluxation/dislocation of radial head

Question 21

What are the bony landmarks of the shoulder

Answer 21

Clavicle
AC joint
Humerus
Bicipital groove

Question 22

What type of arthritis usually involves radial deviation?

Answer 22

OA

Question 23

What direction are glenohumeral joints dislocated in 95% of the time?

Answer 23

Anterior

Question 24

heberden’s nodes are characteristic of which type of arthritis

Answer 24

OA

Question 25

What is a Boutonnière deformity?

Answer 25

Flexion of PIP joint with hyperextension of DIP joint

Question 26

What tests are done to assess for rotator cuff tears

Answer 26

Empty Can Gerber’s lift off Drop Arm

Question 27

What causes de Quervain’s tenosynovitis/

Answer 27

Repetitive gripping | Commonly seen in students, athletes, and moms

Question 28

How would you test motor function of ulnar nerve?

Answer 28

Spreading fingers apart

Question 29

What two tests are for the biceps tendon?

Answer 29

Yergason Speeds

Question 30

What is a postive Finkelstein test indicative of

Answer 30

De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis

Question 31

What epicondyle is involved in tennis elbow?

Answer 31

Lateral

Question 32

What nerve is in the carpal tunnel

Answer 32

Median

Question 33

How would you test motor function of radial nerve

Answer 33

Wrist extension (revving motorcycle)

Question 34

What might indicate a scaphoid fracture?

Answer 34

a tender anatomical snuffbox

Question 35

What score would joint movement but only without gravity receive?

Answer 35

2

Question 36

What is olecranon bursitis?

Answer 36

Inflammation of the bursa with fluid accumulation due to trauma or infection. May be hot/painful.

Question 37

What are the borders of the anatomical snuffbox

Answer 37

``` Lateral: Extensor pollicis brevis Abductor Pollicis longus Medial: Extensor pollicis longus ```

Question 38

What would a positive empty can test indicate?

Answer 38

Supraspinatus injury/tear

Question 39

What test might you do if you suspected adhesive capsulitis?

Answer 39

Apley scratch test

Question 40

What is this test: provider passively abducts arm to 120 degrees and asks patient to slowly lower it

Answer 40

Drop Arm test

Question 41

What type of arthritis usually involves ulnar deviation?

Answer 41

RA

Question 42

What is a Swan neck deformity

Answer 42

Hyperextensin of PIP joint and flexion of DIP joint

Question 43

What is a normal capillary refill time

Answer 43

Under 2 seconds

Question 44

What are ganglion cysts

Answer 44

Collection of synovial fluids within a joint or tendon sheath

Question 45

Which type of node is more common with RA but can appear in both RA and OA?

Answer 45

Bouchards

Question 46

What does a positive Hawkins test indicate

Answer 46

Supraspinatus tendon impingement

Question 47

What is adhesive capsulitis

Answer 47

Frozen shoulder. Pt literally can’t move arm that way, has nothing to do with pain. Mechanical restriction

Question 48

What rotator cuff muscles do external rotation

Answer 48

Infraspinatus 80% | Teres minor 20%

Question 49

What is the scoring range fro muscle strength?

Answer 49

0-5

Question 50

Who gets nursemaid’s elbow

Answer 50

Kids age 1-4

Question 51

What test is this: place hand on back with shoulder internally rotated. Then have pt push against your hand.

Answer 51

Gerber’s Lift Off Test

Question 52

What is this test: elbow flex at 90* with forearm pronated. Supinate forearm and externally rotate humerus against resistance

Answer 52

Yergason (ask them to try to hit you while they supinate)

Question 53

What muscle group attaches to the lateral condyle

Answer 53

Extensor/supinator group

Question 54

What does a positive gerbers lift off test indicate

Answer 54

Subscapularis injury tear

Question 55

What does a positive drop arm test indicate

Answer 55

Rotator cuff tear

Question 56

What Rotator cuff muscles does abduction

Answer 56

Supraspinatus

Question 57

Where are Bouchard’s nodes?

Answer 57

PIP joints “BNP”

Question 58

What nerve is usually assessed with Tinel’s sign?

Answer 58

Median nerve to assess for carpal tunnel

Question 59

What is Tinel’s sign

Answer 59

tapping over a nerve and looking for tingling in the distribution of that nerve *tinel-“tingle”

Question 60

What is de Quervain’s tenosynovitis

Answer 60

Inflammation of the 1st Dorsal Compartment involving sheaths of APL and EPB

Question 61

What part of the hand will atrophy with carpal tunnel syndrome?

Answer 61

Thenar eminence

Question 62

What score would movement with some resistance receive?

Answer 62

4

Question 63

What test is this: elevate arms to 90*, slightly away from midline, rotate arms medially (thumbs down). Pt asked to resist providers downward pressure.

Answer 63

Empty Can test

Question 64

What nerve does most of the palm and the tips of first 3.5 fingers?

Answer 64

Median

Question 65

Where are Heberden’s nodes

Answer 65

Dorsolateral aspects of DIP joints

Question 66

What two tests are done for carpal tunnel

Answer 66

Tinel’s | Phalen’s

Question 67

What is Phalen’s test

Answer 67

Flexing the wrists together in “praying” or backs of hands together for 30-60 seconds assessing for tingling in the median nerve distribution

Question 68

What does a positive Neer’s sign mean

Answer 68

Sub acromion impingement