Musculoskeletal

• 0


  Muscle grading when there is no muscle contraction (paralysis)
• 1


  muscle strength when there is only a slight flicker of contraction (severe weakness)
• 2


  muscle strength grade when there is passive ROM (poor ROM)
• 3


  muscle strength grade when there is active motion against gravity (average weakness)
• 4

  Active motion against some resistance (slight weakness)
• 5


  muscle strength grade for active motion against full resistance (normal)
• nudge test 


  Simple test of balance recovery. Subjects stand with feet close together. The examiner pushes with light even pressure over the sternum three times.
• Scissors gait 


  Gait problem characterized by spastic lower limbs, and movement on stiff, jerky movement. Knees are together and legs cross in front of another
• Parkinsonian gait 


  gait problem characterized by shuffling gait, very stiff manner with stooped over posture with flexed hips and knees
• steppage gait 


  gait problem characterized by a foot drop walk and person flexing and raising the knee higher than usual
• Spastic hemiparesis 


  gait problem characterized by flexed arm held close to body while client drags toe of leg
• lasegue’s test 


  straight leg raise test
• scoliosis 


  unequal leg length may indicate?
• Phalen’s test and tinel’s test

  Test for carpal tunnel syndrome
• Tinel’s test 


  It is performed by lightly tapping (percussing) over the nerve to elicit a sensation of tingling or "pins and needles" in the distribution of the nerve
• Syndactyly 


  Congenital condition wherein two or more digits are fused together
• Polydactyly


  congenital condition wherein there are supernumerary fingers or toes
• genu varum 


  deformity in which one or both legs are bent outward at the knee
• bow leggedness 


  another term for genu varum
• genu valgum 


  a deformity in which the legs are curved inward, so that the knees are close together and strike each other as the person walks, and the ankles are widely separated
• bulge knee test 


  test for swelling that involves stroking the knee and observing the medial side for bulging
• ballotement test 


  test for swelling that involves pressing the knee to milk fluid behind patella and tapping the patella for rebound
• osteoarthritis 


  characterized by decreased ROM with synovial thickening and crepitation
• torn knee meniscus 


  Pain or clicking in the knee
• hallux valugs 


  when the toes are intertwined
• talipes equinovarus 


  congenital, rigid, and fixed malposition of foot
• club foot 


  another term for talipes equinovarus