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1
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Placing a lateral pressure at the knee is testing what?

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Medial collateral ligament strength.

Increased stretching on the medial side indicates damage.

2
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Placing a medial pressure at the knee is testing what?

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Tests for lateral collateral ligament strength.

Increased stretching laterally will indicate damage.

3
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What is the McMurray’s test checking?

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Internally and externally rotating the leg during range of motion.
Popping on external rotation indicates a medial meniscal tear.

Popping on internal rotation indicates a lateral meniscal tear.

4
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What is the unhappy triad?

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Medial meniscal tear
Medial collateral ligament
Anterior cruciate ligament.

It should be known though that lateral meniscus injury is more common.

5
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What are the rotator cuff muscles?

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SItS
Supraspinatous
Infraspinatius
Teres minor
Subscapularis
6
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Which muscle of the rotator cuff is most commonly damaged?

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Supraspinatus (suprascapular nerve)
Tested by the empty/full can test.

abducts the arm before the deltoids kick in.

7
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What rotator cuff is commonly injured in a pitching injury?

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Infraspinatus (suprascapular nerve)

Muscle is responsible for laterally rotating the arm.

8
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What is the action of teres minor?

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Axillary nerve

Adducts and laterally rotates the arm.

9
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What is the action of subscapularis?

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Upper and lower subscapular nerves

Medially rotates and adducts the arm.
Innervated mostly by C5 and C6( entire rotator cuff)

10
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Golfers elbow

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Medial epicondylitis of the arm

Repetitive flexion

11
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Tennis elbow

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Lateral epicondylitis

Repetitive extension

12
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Most commonly injure carpal bone that is also prone to avascular necrosis?

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Scaphoid bone.
Also known as the snuff box.

It is suceptible because of its retrograde blood supply.

13
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Dislocation of which carpal bone can cause severe carpal tunnel?

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Dislocation of the lunate bone.

14
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The hook of which carpal bone can cause ulnar compression if damaged?

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The hook of the hamate.

15
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Nerve damaged with fractured surgical neck of the humerus or anterior dislocation of the humerus?

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Axillary nerve

16
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Upper trunk compression leads to damage of what nerve?

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Musculocutaneous

C5-C7

17
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Midshaft fracture of the humerus or saturday night palsey/walking in crutches.

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Radial nerve injury.

C5-T1

18
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What nerve is injured with a supracondylar fracture of the humerus?

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Median nerve
C5-T1

Can be proximal (in humerus) or distal (carpal tunnel)

Will effect the hand differently.

19
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Medial epicondyle of the humerus fractures effect what…?

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Ulnar nerve C8-T1

Can ead to different problems if proximal compared to distal.

20
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Damage to the recurrent branch of the median nerve leads to what disorder?

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C5-T1 injury can occur with superficial palm lacerations.

Will present with popes hand as the thenar muscle group will be damaged.

21
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Describe Erbs palsy

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Destruction/damage of the upper trunk C5-C6 roots

Leads to waiters tip sign (loss of flexors)

22
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Lateral traction on an infants neck when born

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Erbs palsey
Damage to C5-C6 waiters tip

Arm dangling to side, fully extended, medially rotated and hand flexed/supinated

23
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Grabbing a tree branch to break a fall

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Damage of the C8-T1 nerve roots.
Leads to Klumpke palsey –> Loss of internal hand muscles.

“Total Claw hand”

24
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How would a pancoast tumor/ thoracic outlet syndrome present?

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Same as Klumpsky as the lower roots would be damaged.

25
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What could possibly lead to long thoracic nerve damage

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Would result in a winged scapula and would be seen after a masectomy when removing lymph nodes.

Seratus anterior wont be working correctly.

26
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Describe the general pattern following proximal vs distal nerve injury in the arm.

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Proximal injuries generally present with difficulty flexing and extinding all of the fingers.

Distal injuries generally cause clawing.

27
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How would damage to the superior gluteal nerve compare to the inferior gluteal nerve in prsentation?

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Superior gluteal nerve would present with lack of abduction while standing “trendelenberg sign”

Inferior gluteal nerve would present with difficutly standing from a sitting position (loss of hip extension)

28
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Damage to which nerve would result in the inability to stand on your tip toes?

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Damage to the tibial nerve.

29
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what artery correlates to damage to the surgical neck of the humerus?

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Posterior circumflex

30
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What artery correlates to damage to the midshaft of teh humerus?

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Deep brachial

31
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What artery correlates to damage to the distal humerus/cubital fossa?

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Brachial artery

32
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Depolarization of voltage sensitive …. receptors leads to calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum.

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Depolarization of the voltage sensitive dihydropyridine receptor mechanically coupled to the ryanodine receptor in muscle cells.

33
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Contraction of muscle leads to shortening of which muscle bands?

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H and I muscle bands between Z lines.
“HIZ Shrinkage”

A band is always the same length!!!

34
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What change results in the myosin head becoming “Cocked”

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ATP binding releases the myosin head from the actin filament and is hydrolyzed to ADP coking the head for the next contraction cycle.

35
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How does smooth muscle contract?

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Depolarization leads to L-type calcium channels opening.

Calcium influx increases the myosin-light chain kinase activity leading to myosin and actin binding and contracting.

36
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How does nitric oxide effect smooth muscle?

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Activates Guanylate cyclase “cGMP” leading to myosin light chain phosphatase activation.

This stops the myosin actin cycle.

37
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Describe endochondral ossification

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Bones of the axial and appendicular skeleton/base of skull

Chondroblasts lay down a cartilage model that is then replaced by osteoblasts “woven bone”
Woven bone is then replaced by lamellar bone.

38
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When is woven bone present in adults?

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After fractures and pagets disease.

39
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Achondroplasia

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Failure of longitudinal bone growth by endochondral ossification. Membranous ossification (skull and face) is not effected.

Typically because of excessive fibroblast growth factor receptor inhibiting chondrocyte proliferation.

40
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What type of bone is lost in primary osteoporosis?

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Loss of trabecular bone mass.

DEXA score of

41
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What are the four drug classes that can cause osteoperosis?

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Anticoagulants
Thyroid Replacement
Anticonvulsants
Long term steroid use

Look for vertebral compression fractures.

42
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How does estrogen work in the bones?

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Stops apoptosis of osteoblasts and promotes apoptosis of osteoclasts.

43
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Osteopetrosis

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Failure to reabsorb bone due to defective osteoclasts

44
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Osteomalacia/rickets

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Vitamin D deficiency

Thus cannot calcify bone/osteoid

Alkaline phosphate will be increased as well as osteoblasts require alkaline environment to try and work in.

45
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What is the classic 4 presentations of seronegative spondyloarthropies?

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HLA-B27 in men
Psoriatic arthritis “Pencil and cup”
Ankylosing Spondylitis (spine and Sacroiliac joints)
Inflammatory Bowel disease
Reactive arthritis (cant see cant pee etc)

46
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Libman sacks endocarditis

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Vegatative non bacterial frowths on heart valve associated with systemic lupus erythematous

47
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Elevated serum ACE in black female with enlarged lymph nodes

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Suspect sarcoidosis.
Look for restrictive lung diseases or bells palsy.

treat with steroids.

48
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Temporal or giant cell arteritis is commonly related to which condition?

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Polymyalgia rheumatica.

49
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Ptsosis, diplopia, weakness that worsens with muscle use is likely?

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Myasthenia gravis

Autoantibodies directed at postsynaptic ACh receptors.

50
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What is the underlying problem with lambert-eaton myasthenic syndome?

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Autoantibodies to presynaptic calcium channel decreasing ACh release

51
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Proximal muscle weakness, autonomic symptoms of dry mouth and impotense that improves with muscle use is a sign of?

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Lambert eaton myasthnia syndrome.

52
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Triad of autoimmunity, noninflammatory vasculopathy, collagen deposition with fibrosis.

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Scleroderma

53
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epidermal Skin layers from the surface to the base***

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Stratum corneum
Stratum lucidum
Stratum granulosum
Stratum spinosum
Stratum basale

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54
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Bullous pemphigoid

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Connects keratin in basal cells to underlying basement membrane.

55
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Cadherins vs integrins

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Cadhering maintain cell to cell interactions through adherens.

Integrins maintain the connection of cells to the basement membrane

56
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Albinism

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Normal ammount of melanocytes

Decreased/defective tyrosinase activity.

57
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Vitiligo

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Autoimmune destruction of melanocytes.

Think black person gaining white skin.

58
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Cellulitis vs erysipelas

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Cellulitis has spreading borders erisypelas does not.

59
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Nikolskys sign

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Separation of epidermis upon manual stroking of the skin.

Seen with pemphigus vulgaris IgG antibody against desmoglien.

60
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Bullous pemphigoid vs pemphigus vulgaris

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In bullous pemphigoid IgG is directed against hemidesmasomes and wont have nikolskys sign.

Pemphigus vulgaris is way worse and has IgG against desmoglien.

61
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Most common skin cancer

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Basal cell carcinoma

Look for the palisading nucei

62
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Skin cancer common with sun exposure

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Squamous cell carcinoma

Keratin pearls

63
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Actinic keratosis

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Scaly plaque precursor to squamous cell carcinoma

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