Musculoskeletal System (Msq Drill 203)

1. Is everything in medicine concrete?

Yes

No

2. Regardless of age or specialty the most common reason people present to the doctosr's office is for a musculoskeletal problem. True or false?

True

False

3. What are the two types of validity

Internal and external

Inside and outside

4. Which validity do you ask : can you generalise the conclusions outside the study parameters?

Internal

External

5. Errors in the measuring device will result in a sampling or measurement error?

Sampling

Measurement

6. If the sensitivity is high, then the positive or negative test should rule out disease?

Positive

Negative

7. Gamma neurons are small or large AHC's

Small AHC's

Large AHC's

8. The wrong sample size will be a sampling or measurement error?

Sampling error

Measurement error

9. Which type of pain is descriptive of the radicular pain that occurs when the dorsal roots are irritated?

Dull ache pain

Electric, burning, lancing pain

10. No contraction is a grade 0 or grade 1?

0

1

11. A palpable contraction with no movment is a grade:

1

2

3

4

5

12. Normal full active ROM, muscle can withstand strong resistance against gravity:

5

4

3

2

1

13. If the specificty is high, then the positive or negative test rules in the diagnosis?

Positive

Negative

14. Do tendons stretch in reflex testing?

Yes

No

15. Validity is bsically what is true in literature. True or false?

True

False

16. Is near normal strength a grade 3 or 4?

3

4

17.
ROM in the plane parallel to gravity or less than full active ROM (gravity eliminated)

0

1

2

3

4

18. Which validity do you ask: Do the results explain the truth?

Internal

External

19. How well the test or procedure can identify disease?

Sensitivity

Specificity

20. PNS lesion: Which is usually greater between the loss of light touch or pin prick?

Light touch loss

Pin prick loss

21. Full active ROM against gravity - no resistance

0

1

2

3

4

22. Are alpha motor neurons large or small anterior horn cells?

Large AHC's

Small AHC's

23. What is the least precise range in MMT grading?

2

3

4

5

more subjective

Explanation

more subjective

24. In MMT what reflects peripheral neuromuscular function?

Strength

Propioception

25. The very best tests do not have any:

False positives

False negatives

True negative

True positive

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26. How well the test identifies people without disease?

Sensitivity

Specificity

27. If the results are reproducible and consistent then the results are considered to be: ________ .

Valid

Reliable

Consistent

28. Which neurons have axons that go to the intrafusal muscle fibers?

Alpha motor neuron

Gamma neurons

29. Error affects validity. Which of the following is(are) examples of errors that can affect validity?

Sampling error

Measurement error

Planning error

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30. Which grade has large subjectivity due to day to day variability?

2

3

4

5

31. If you use border ranges such as pluses and minuses for MMT, do the specificity and sensitivty go up?

Yes, they go up

No, they go down

32. What is the most important observation during reflex testing?

Amplitude

Assymetry

Speed of reflex initiation

33. Reflex activity is based on which two elements?

Reflex activity

Muscle tone

Muscle activity

Flaccidity

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