Musculoskeletal - power points Flashcards
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What is MMT?
Manual muscle testing
What are the systems involved in pain assessment for musculoskeletal disorders?
1) Vascular
2) Neuro
3) Musculoskeletal
4) Psych (emotional)
What are some of the descriptors used that indicate vascular pain?
Throbbing, pounding, pulsing, beating
What are some of the descriptors used that indicate neurogenic pain?
Sharp, crushing, pinching, burning, hot, searing itchy, stinging, pulling, jumping, pricking, gnawing and electrical
What are some of the descriptors used that indicate musculoskeletal pain?
Aching, sore, heavy, hurting, dull, cramping and deep
What are some of the descriptors used that indicate emotional pain?
Tiring, miserable, viscious, agonizing, nauseating frightful, piercing, dreadful, torturing, punishing, killing, unbearable, annoying, cruel, sickening, and exhausting
What are some systemic pain patterns?
1) recent or sudden onset
2) vascular or neurogenic descriptors
3) usually more constant
4) may have pain at night (oncological)
5) unilateral or bilateral
6) other s/sx
What are some musculoskeletal pain patterns?
1) sudden or gradual
2) musculoskeletal descriptors
3) may be constant or intermittent
4) normally unilateral
5) rarely may have sweating, nausea or blanching
Superficial pain sources include:
1) skin
2) fascia
3) tendon sheaths
4) periosteum
Sources of deep pain include:
1) bones
2) nerves
3) muscles
4) tendons
5) ligaments
6) blood vessels
7) deep fascia
8) joint capsules
Common hip complaints are?
1) pain increased with weight bearing
2) Pain present with active or passive ROM
3) pain in buttocks or radiating to anterior thigh
What is the term that means outward from the center of the body?
Valgus
What is the term that means inward toward the center of the body?
Varus
Golfers elbow typically causes pain in what location?
Medial epicondyle
Tennis elbow typically causes pain in what location?
Lateral epicondyle
The reflex measurement scale ranges from what to what?
0-4
What reflex measurement is considered normal?
2/4
Who does active ROM?
The patient
Who does passive ROM?
The provider
Inert structures are non-contractile. Give some examples.
Ligaments, bursae, nerves, cartilege
Pain with passive ROM indicates a problem with what structures?
Inert structures
Pain with active ROM indicates a problem with what structures?
Muscles or tendons
Examples of normal end feels are:
1) bony
2) soft tissue
3) stretch
Examples of abnormal end feels are:
1) spasm
2) empty
3) bony
4) capsular (fibrosis)
5) springy
