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How can we determine your dominant eye?
Make a triangle with your hands and center an object
Close your left eye.
If it stays in the center–> right eye dom
If it moves. kegt eye dom
Mesomorphic
- body type?
- ROM?
- Developed from?
Musclular/sturdy (average guy)
Mid ranges of ROM
-embryonic mesoderm
Ectomorphic
- body type?
- ROM?
- Developed from?
Thin, long, linear
High ROM
Embryonic ectoderm
Endomorphic
- body type?
- ROM?
- Developed from?
- heavy, fat
- low ROM
- embryonic endoderm
What can pale color indicate?
anemia
What does redness/erythema indicate?
inflammation
What does jaundice sometimes indicate?
cirrhosis
What does cyanosis indicate?
reaction to cold/ reynauds disease
what color would you be with reynauds dz
cyanosis- blue
figuring out dom eye is called
dentification
blackness indications what?
necrosis
what do kids with tetralogy of fallot look like?
have blue skin when crying or feeding
who is paul karason
turned blue after using colloidal silver to treat dermititis.
dermatitis causes what?
swollen, red and itchy skin
What can we observe on the skin?
lesions
scars
tattoos
piercings
ABCDE of lesions
asymmetry borders color diameter evolution
color of lesions
look for uneven colors
diameter of lesions
> 6mm
What is comparitive analysis?
Compare right vs left based on
- height
- symmetry
- deviation from the midline
What factors create asymmetry?
Bone deformity Joint deformity Kyphoscoliosis Dress, occupation, mental attitude, habit Sacral base unleveling Lower extremity defects Somatic dysfunction
What are physical landmarks on the head carriage that we can use to determine symmetry?
Eye level
Ear level
Nose/Nares symmetry
ear prominence
What are physical landmarks on the UE that we can use to determine symmetry?
Acromion height
Clavicular angles
finger tip length compared to iliac crests
What are physical landmarks below the shoulder that we can use to determine symmetry?
- Angle rib cage
- Umbilicus
3, Crest of ileum
4, upper leg/lower leg
- Medial/lower malleoli
What are physical landmarks on the posterior view that we can use to determine symmetry?
- Carriage of head
- shoulder level
3, arm carriage
4, spinous process alignment
5, PSIS
- gluteal line
- achilles tendon
- popliteal line/space
