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Pathologic Barriers to Motion

Quick Quiz 2
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Hypertonic muscles could be described as feeling?
Boggy.
Tight.
Smooth.


Normal muscles could be described as feeling?
Boggy.
Tight.
Smooth.


Any factor that results in an obstruction to the full range of motion is called?
Anatomic Barrier.
Restrictive Barrier.
Physiologic Barrier.


The goal of treatment is to move the restrictive barrier as far into the direction of motion loss as is possible.
True. False.


Hypertonicity results in increased resistance of muscle to passive stretching?
True. False.


You have a patient that presents complaining of a painful neck. You example the patient in a seated position and notice that their head is rotated about 10 degrees to the left. You tentitively make a positional diagnosis of?
C1 rotated right.
C1 rotated left.


You have a patient that presents complaining of a painful neck. You example the patient in a seated position and notice that their head is rotated about 10 degrees to the left. You tentitively make a diagnosis of?
C1 right rotation resticted.
C1 left rotation resticted.


As you examine your patient, you find that during flexion of L1 on L2, the posterior process stays centered on the midline. However, during extension the posterior process of L1 shifts to the right of the midline. Your conclusion is that the left facet of L1 is:
Stuck open.
Stuck closed.
Normal.


The positional diagnosis that you would make for L1 is?
ERS-Left
ERS-Right
FRS-Left
FRS-Right