With Correct Marking Scheme
/.5 tests for SIJ are: 3/5 are positive, then it indicates SIJ pathology - Answer-
✅distraction, thigh thrust, Gaenslen, sacral thrust, compression
/.which two SIJ tests should you perform first - Answer-✅distraction, thigh thrust then
compression (if first two are negative
/.mnemonic and most commons sites of metastasis to bone (mostly to spine) - Answer-
✅P.T. Barnum Loves Kids.
Prostate
Testes
Breasts
Lungs
Kidney
/.normal sidebending ROM for lumbar and thoracic spine - Answer-✅35 deg (45 deg
rotation)
/.ligament that holds dens of axis to atlas - Answer-✅transverse ligament
/.ligament that runs from the dens to the occipital condyles and lateral masses on the
atlas - Answer-✅alar ligament
/.diagnostic cluster for cervical myelopathy - Answer-✅1. age >45 years
2. positive hoffman's
3. positive babinski
4. gait deviation
5. positive inverted supinator
/.this could mimic signs/symptoms of lateral epicondylagia - Answer-✅radial tunnel
syndrome
/.Kellgren and Lawrence - Answer-✅Grade I: Doubtful narrowing of joint space with
possible osteophytic lipping.
Grade II: Definite osteophytes with possible narrowing of joint space.
Grade III: Multiple osteophytes, definite jt. space narrowing, sclerosis, possible
deformity of bone contour.