SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔How do you manage back injuries? - ✔✔Balance is key:
Don't demand more than your back's functional capacity can handle
Expectations with realistic goals
Treatments:
Enough time for rest/healing
Cold, heat, and NSAID
Rehab
Correct predisposing factors
May need to change job or sport
✔✔what is goal of McGill's Big 3 and what is it? - ✔✔Goal is to build endurance in
spinal stabilizers
Bird Dog
Trunk Raise
Side Plank
10 sec activity, 2 sec rest
Descending pyramid of repetition (8-6-4)
✔✔what is the anatomy of the Thorax? - ✔✔Neck
Diaphragm
Thoracic vertebrae
Sternum, Ribs
Muscles
✔✔How many thoracic vertebrae are there? and what is their classifications and
attachments? - ✔✔12 thoracic vertebrae
1-7(true ribs): Attached to sternum by individual cartilage
8,9,10(False ribs): Share one attachment
11,12(floating ribs): Do not attach to the Sternum
✔✔What does the Sternum consist of? - ✔✔Manubrium, Body, Xiphoid process
✔✔Muscles in the thorax are.. - ✔✔Diaphragm
Intercoastal muscles
Sternocleido mastoid
Accessory respiratory muscles
,✔✔Organ anatomy inside the thorax cavity... - ✔✔Lungs
Heart
Aorta
Superior Vena Cava
Azygous nerve
Esophagus
Trachea
Vagus nerves
✔✔Thorax Muscle Strains; history, symptoms and treatment? - ✔✔History:
Common when running
Symptoms:
Pain on deep inspiration
Dyspnea
Tenderness
Treatment:
Rest
Antibiotics
✔✔Rib Fracture; history, symptoms and treatment? - ✔✔History:
Direct blow
Compression(tackle)
Symptoms:
Severe inspiratory pain
Dyspnea
Tenderness, maybe crepitus
X-ray is not helpful
Treatment:
Rest
Antibiotics
✔✔Costochondral Sprain or dislocation; History, Symptoms and Treatment? -
✔✔History:
Common when running
Symptoms:
Pain on deep inspiration
Dyspnea
Tenderness
Crepitus
Deformity..?
,Treatment:
Rest
Antibiotics
Surgery...?
✔✔Pneumothorax; History, Symptoms, and Treatment? - ✔✔History:
Life threatening
Can be open or closed
Symptoms:
Severe dyspnea
Shock
Rapid respiratory rate
Treatment:
Cover opening
Hospital ASAP
✔✔What is the difference between an open vs closed Pneumothorax? - ✔✔Open:
Outside air gets inside the pleural cavity through a chest wall injury
Closed:
When air leaks into the pleural cavity from the lung itself
✔✔Flail Chest; History, Symptoms, and Treatment? - ✔✔History:
Multiple rib fractures
Paradoxical motion of part of chest wall
Symptoms:
Severe dyspnea
Shock
Rapid respiratory rate
Treatment:
Cover openings
Hospital ASAP
✔✔Abdominal Anatomy: - ✔✔Diaphragm
Pelvis
Abdominal muscles
Vertebrae
Lower ribs
Back muscles
, ✔✔From where to where does the Inguinal ligament extend? - ✔✔Anterior Superior Iliac
Spine to Pubic Tubercle
✔✔What is an Inguinal canal and what are its openings called? - ✔✔Inguinal canal is a
tunnel-like structure in the lower part of the Anterior Abdominal wall for spermatic cord
in males or round ligament of uterus in females.
It also has 2 openings called the internal and external inguinal rings.
✔✔What can be found below the Inguinal ligament? and what is it the site of? -
✔✔Femoral Triangle - Femoral arteries, nerves, and veins
Site of femoral herniation
✔✔Abdominal Contents are? - ✔✔Solid Organs:
Liver(RUQ)
Spleen(LUQ)
Kidneys(FLANKS)
Intestines and Glands:
Stomach
Duodenum/Ileum/Jejunum
Colon
Appendix
Pancreas
Gall bladder
Vessels:
Abdominal Aorta
Inferior Vena Cava
"Visitors":
Uterus in pregnancy
Bladder(Full)
✔✔Blow to the coeliac plexus, history, symptoms, and treatment - ✔✔History:
Trauma to central abdomen leads to nerve concussion
Short period of paralysis to the diaphragm
Symptoms:
Ache
Dyspnea
Anxiety
Treatment:
Relaxation(short inhalation, long exhalation)