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Describe all you can about thisRadiograph: Orientation?Region?Level?Pertient anatomy?

Diagnosis?

Anatomy involved?

Diagnosis?

Confirmatory findings on physical exam?

Items indicated and other pertinent anatomy?

Diagnosis?

Findings on physical exam?

Identify items indicated andOther pertinent anatomy

How do you test m. strength?Test reflex?

Diagnosis?

Findings on physical exam?

Identify items indicated andOther pertinent anatomy

Describe typical location of procedure,

Anatomy traversed from start to correctfinish location

Rationale for procedure?

A 60 year old female presents with complaints of pain, numbness, and tingling in her lower limbs when she walks for moderate distances -- ?????

-possible DX?-possible etiologies?

A 35 year old male suffered a penetrating neck injury during a tornado. The physicianbelieves he severed his spinal accessory nerve on the left. What findings would bepresent?

A 36 year old female presents with neck pain. Physical exam reveals (on the left) a band of tight, ropey muscle extending from the transverse processes of T1-6 to aboutthe level of the inferior nuchal line. What muscle is most likely exhibiting somaticdysfunction?

What muscles rotate the vertebral column?

In which direction?

T10

What muscles will be affected?

Suboccipital Release is a technique you willlearn in week 5 OPP. Constant steady pressureis placed in the suboccipital area to relax the muscles in this region.

List the muscles/structures encountered fromSuperficial to deep.

What nerves may be affected by treatmentTo this region?

What is the only muscle that rotates the skull without attaching to it?

Draw the suboccipital muscles and the two nerves in the region (1 from within the triangle,One from below the triangle).

Draw and label a spinal nerve diagram, include sensory/motor/mixed labels.

Predict findings in the following three patient presentations

1. 34yom with avulsion of posterior roots at C5-62. 56yom with stenosis of intervertebral foramen b/w C4/5 and C5/63. 67yom with injury to anterior horn spinal cord at C5/6

Patient presents following a traumatic cervical spine injury. She isUnable to breathe on her own and it placed on a ventilator. What Spinal cord levels are damaged? What nerve is affected?

How would prostate cancer get to the spine?