A patient comes to the clinic complaining of neck and shoulder pain and is unable to turn her head.The nurse suspects damage to cranial nerve ______ and proceeds with the examination by ________________________.
A) XI; palpating the anterior and posterior triangles
B) XI; asking the patient to shrug her shoulders against resistance
C) XII; percussing the sternomastoid and submandibular neck muscles
D) XII; assessing for a positive Romberg sign
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