Practice Flashcards
Cushing’s disease, hypertension, mental changes, weight gain, increased hair growth are all signs of an increase in which hormone?
adrenocorticotropic hormone
decreased blood glucose levels, pallor, increased perspiration, tachycardia, weakness, shakiness, blurred vision may be a result of an increase in:
insulin
increase in epinephrine may cause:
increased blood pressure
tachycardia
hyperglycemia
fight or flight
opposite of talipes equinovarus, aka an intrauterine “packaging” deformity
calcaneovalgus
DF ankle
laterally curved forefoot
valgus hindfoot
intrauterine “packaging” deformity where hindfoot is in valgus and forefoot is in varus
metatarsus adductus
diabetic exercise restrictions:
don’t workout at peak insulin times
<100? oh don’t do it
>250? oh my gah
we definitely want them working out consistently though. Same time every day would be juuuuust fine.
how does external rotation of the tibia affect the foot?
results in supination
Manual lymph drainage is appropriate for:
chronic edema in order to stimulate circulation
CRPS for relaxation
venous insufficiency to get the excess fluid out the extremkties
why is manual lymph drainage contraindicated for heart failure?
because your moving fluid back towards a failing heart that’s already overwhelmed as is.
what is emphysema?
common symptoms?
when you have destroyed alveolar walls with enlarged spaces
common symptoms include having way more residual volume, not responding to bronchodilators, absent or mucoid sputum
sputum associated with pneumococcal pneumonia? treated with?
pink, treated with antibiotics
chronic bronchitis sputum is described as:
neutrophilic
where would a patient with appendicitis report pain?
what other symptoms would be featured?
right lower quadrant
with fever and rebound tenderness
cross sectional research design
studying a group at one point in time and generalizing the results to ta population
type of research used to determine the interrelationships among variables?
correlational research design
