Structural Exam

Question 1

What is an easy way to see R and L asymmetries?

Answer 1

Skin creases on waist, elbows, back of knees

Question 2

Are R and L sides normally mirror images?

Answer 2

No

Question 3

Can anyone take credit for manipulative healing?

Answer 3

N

Question 4

Whose artwork portrays manual treatment?

Answer 4

Hippocrates

Question 5

Who included “bonesetters”?

Answer 5

Native Americans and European cultures

Question 6

Whose medical manuscripts had manipulative procedures?

Answer 6

Chinese

Question 7

Osteopathic medicine focuses on what?

Answer 7

Patient orientated approach; not disease oriented

Question 8

Is “holistic” exclusive to osteopathic medicine?

Answer 8

NO (mind, body, spirit)

Question 9

2 things with Heroic Medicine

Answer 9

1. Remedies worse than original disease

2. Surgery used no anesthetics and performed outside of sterile field

Question 10

Who enunciated Germ Theory? When?

Answer 10

Koch; 1890’s

Question 11

What did Heroic Medicine use to treat medical conditions?

Answer 11

Poisons and/or addictive substances such as mercury, arsenic, opium, cocaine, morphine, and alcohol

Question 12

5 health affects of Mercury

Answer 12

1. Deteriorates nervous system
2. Impairs hearing, speech, vision and gait
3. Corrodes skin and mucous membranes
4. Involuntary muscles movements
5. Chewing and swallowing to become difficult

Question 13

AT Still’s Letters

Answer 13

AT Still, MD, DO

Question 14

When and where was AT Still born?

Answer 14

August 6th, 1828

Virginia

Question 15

What did AT Still’s father do?

Answer 15

1. Farmer
2. Physician
3. Methodist Minister

Question 16

Did AT Still’s family relocate for their dad?

Answer 16

Yes; minister things

Question 17

3 things AT Still did

Answer 17

1. Farmer
2. Minister
3. Legislator

Question 18

Where did AT Still study?

Answer 18

Kansas City School of Physicians and Surgeons (now gone)

Question 19

What did AT Still serve as?

Answer 19

Union Officer and Physician/Surgeon in Civil War

Question 20

Why did he start to dislike modern medicine? When?

Answer 20

Lost 3 children (2 of his own) to spinal meningitis in 19th century

Question 21

Who influenced Still?

Answer 21

Plains Native Americans who he ministers to in Kansas

Question 22

Did he study anatomy on living and deceased

Answer 22

Yes

Question 23

What did AT still call God? What did he believe?

Answer 23

“Master Mechanic”. Believed He didn’t create a body that wasn’t capable of healing itself

Question 24

Did he like the use of medicine?

Answer 24

No; saw it as poison

Question 25

What does the snake comment mean?

Answer 25

Snake is poison like drugs, osteopathy is victorious

Question 26

When did the headache banner occur? When did he announce it?

Answer 26

Child; when he was 46

Question 27

What was the headache event called? When?

Answer 27

"Flung to the breeze the banner of Osteopathy" June 22, 1874

Question 28

Where did Still announce his ideas? Well received?

Answer 28

Bake University in Baldwin, Kansas No; Labeled as heretic

Question 29

What was his first school called?

Answer 29

American School of Osteopathy

Question 30

What is the Triune Nature of man? Did Still think it important?

Answer 30

Yes; balance of mind, body, and spirit

Question 31

How did Still see the body?

Answer 31

As machine where each working part had to be free of structural restriction or impediment to perform at its optimal level

Question 32

What was Still's axiom?

Answer 32

"Find it, fix it, and let it alone"

Question 33

Date of inagurated first class?

Answer 33

October 3, 1892

Question 34

How many students in first class? How many women? Enrollment in 1899?

Answer 34

17; 5; exceeds 700

Question 35

How long was the curriculum? When did first diplomats graduate?

Answer 35

2 years; 1894

Question 36

How much was tuition?

Answer 36

500

Question 37

Did Still encourage matriculation of African Americans and women?

Answer 37

yes

Question 38

What did CHARTER state?

Answer 38

To improve surgery, obstetrics, and treatment of disease, put same rational and scientific basis to impart information to medical profession

Question 39

When did surgery and obstetrics get into curriculum?

Answer 39

1897

Question 40

What was the most important subject?

Answer 40

Anatomy!

Question 41

Observe what 3 main things?

Answer 41

How patient sits, stands, and ambulated

Question 42

What is the body habitus?

Answer 42

Clothing, grooming, make-up

Question 43

Why do we site landmarks?

Answer 43

To prevent "parallax"

Question 44

How do we get reproducible results?

Answer 44

Pt stands without shoes, feel under their hips to produce 90 degree rectangle

Question 45

Where is the Odontoid Process? What is it a part of?

Answer 45

C2; Lateral Midgraviation Line (weight bearing line)

Question 46

Is Sacral Promontory in the weight bearing line?

Answer 46

Yes

Question 47

Mid Gravtiational Line Landmarks

Answer 47

``` External Auditory Canal Odontoid Process Greater tuberosity of humerus Mid-body L3 Sacral Promintory Greater trochanter of femur Just posterior to patella Just anteral to lateral malleolus ```

Question 48

Are all scoliotic curves lateral curves?

Answer 48

Yes

Question 49

Are all lateral curves scoliotic curves?

Answer 49

No

Question 50

On pelvic sideshift, it is more free away or towards short leg?

Answer 50

Away from short leg

Question 51

What 2 areas are assessed in sideshift test?

Answer 51

Thoracic and lumbar

Question 52

2 other things in sideshift test?

Answer 52

Dropped medial arch, fascial restriction in LE

Question 53

Where is iliosacral from?

Answer 53

LE