COMLEX review flashcards
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Twenty COMLEX-style review flashcards: osteopathic principles, techniques, viscerosomatic links and core clinical facts.
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- TART criteria of somatic dysfunction?
- Tissue texture change, Asymmetry, Restriction of motion, Tenderness.
- Fryette law I?
- Neutral spine: sidebending and rotation to opposite sides, in a group.
- Fryette law II?
- Flexed or extended spine: sidebending and rotation to the same side, single segment.
- What are Chapman points?
- Small fascial nodules that reflect dysfunction of an internal organ.
- Spinal level of sympathetic supply to the heart?
- T1 to T5.
- Parasympathetic supply to the descending colon?
- Pelvic splanchnic nerves, S2 to S4.
- Common contraindications to HVLA?
- Fracture, severe osteoporosis, joint instability, bone metastasis.
- Muscle energy: who provides the force?
- The patient contracts against the physician's counterforce.
- Counterstrain: how long to hold the position?
- 90 seconds.
- Main purpose of the lymphatic pump?
- Improve lymph flow, for example in respiratory infection.
- Ribs with mainly pump-handle motion?
- Ribs 1 to 5.
- Ribs with mainly bucket-handle motion?
- Ribs 6 to 10.
- Ribs with caliper motion?
- Ribs 11 and 12.
- Normal cranial rhythmic impulse rate?
- 10 to 14 cycles per minute.
- Positive standing flexion test means?
- Iliosacral dysfunction on the side whose PSIS rises first.
- Positive seated flexion test means?
- Sacroiliac dysfunction on the side whose PSIS rises first.
- Positive Spurling test suggests?
- Cervical nerve root compression.
- Treatment of choice for strep throat?
- Penicillin V or amoxicillin.
- Maternal serum marker raised in open neural tube defects?
- Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP).
- First-line drug classes for hypertension in Black adults without CKD?
- Thiazide diuretic or calcium channel blocker.