Deck 9: Mechanisms and Characteristics of Musculoskeletal and Nerve Trauma

Question 1

Which of the following injuries are classified as repetitive stress and mictrotrauma?

A) A fractured femur
B) Achilles tendonitis
C) Osgood-Schlatter disease
D) Shin splints
E) Brachial plexus stretch
F) Contracoup fracture
G) Patellar condromalacia
H) Communicated fracture of the clavicle

Answer 1

Achilles tendonitis
Osgood-Schlatter disease
Shin splints
Patellar condromalacia

Question 2

For the following muscular injuries, which one is characterized by an extremely painful involuntary muscle contraction that occurs more often in the calf, abdomen, or hamstrings?

A) Muscle strain
B) Muscle cramps
C) Muscle guarding
D) Muscle spasms
E) Muscle soreness

Answer 2

Muscle cramps

Question 3

For the following muscular injuries, which one is characterized by a reflex reaction caused by trauma of the musculoskeletal system?

A) Muscle strain
B) Muscle cramps
C) Muscle guarding
D) Muscle spasms
E) Muscle soreness

Answer 3

Muscle spasms

Question 4

Which of the following is the most common overuse problem associated with activity?

A) Strains
B) Sprains
C) Bursitis
D) Fasciitis
E) Tendinitis

Question 5

What is the name of a calcium formation in a large muscle due to repeated blows over the same area?

A) Osteochondritis dissecans
B) Contusion
C) Stress fracture
D) Myositis ossificans
E) Myositis

Question 6

Osteoarthritis is most likely to affect what bone?

A) The femur
B) The lunate
C) The calcaneous
D) The sternum
E) The mandible

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of an irregularly shaped bone?

A) Scapulae
B) Rib
C) Vertebrae
D) Ulna
E) Fibula

Question 8

What type of fracture occurs when an athlete is hit on one side of the head and a fracture occurs on the side opposite of the point where the trauma was initiated?

A) Blowout
B) Serrated
C) Depressed
D) Contrecoup
E) Stress

Question 9

What is neuropraxia?

A) Interruption in conduction of the impulse down the nerve fiber
B) Numbness, prickling, or tingling of the nerve fiber
C) Diminished sense of feeling of the nerve fiber
D) Swelling of the nerve fiber
E) Seperation of the nerve fiber

Question 10

A patient is complaining of a diminished sense of feeling since sustaining an injury to the hand. When writing a SOAP note, what medical term would be used to describe this symptom?

A) Hyperesthesia
B) Paresthesia
C) Hypoesthesia
D) Referred pain
E) Neuritis

Question 11

A cross-country runner is in the early stages of a stress fracture. How would the athlete describe the pain?

A) There is pain when active but not at rest
B) There is pain when active and when at rest
C) There is pain only at night
D) There is pain only in the morning
E) There is pain when at rest but not when active

Question 12

When a patient experiences pain at rest and can elicit a "jump sign" when pressure is applied directly on a specific point of skeletal muscle and/or fascia it could be identified as which of the following?

A) Active trigger point
B) Fasciitis
C) Referred pain
D) Myofascial trigger point
E) Trigger point

Question 13

When a dislocation occurs, why is it important to obtain x-rays before reduction?

A) To make sure there is a dislocation
B) To check if it was only a subluxation
C) To rule out a fracture
D) To see if this is a chronic injury
E) To view the articulation

Question 14

Which of the following bones is most likely to sustain a depressed fracture?

A) Femur
B) Lunate
C) Calcaneous
D) Parietal
E) Metacarpal

Question 15

The chronic degeneration of a tendon without inflammation is referred to as:

A) Tendonitis
B) Tendinosis
C) Tendinopathy
D) Crepitis
E) Tenosynovities