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ADVANCED PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT FINAL EXAM LATEST
UPDATES -2025/2026- ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+ GUARANTEED SUCCESS
Acute diverticulititis involves which part of the colon?
The sigmoid colon
Irritable bowel syndrome symptoms
syms present more than 6 months
2 out of 3 features:
Improves with defecation
Onset with change in stool frequency
Onset with change in stool form
Decreased ROM
Cervical Radiculopathy
Sharp burning or tingling pain in neck & one arm
Caused by herniated disc (nerve root compression)
Can have tricep and bicep involvement
Cervical Myelopathy (cord compression)
Neck pain with bilateral weakness and paresthesia in both upper and lower
extremities, Palmar paresthesia
MEDICAL EMERGENCY, must stabilize neck
PE: Hyperreflexia, + babinski, gait changes
Red flags with Back pain for possible metastases
Age > 50
, 2
History of cancer
Unexplained weight loss
Back pain at night or present at rest
Think Malignacy
Aching pain in the lumbosacral area. PE: paraspinal muscle tenderness, pain with
movement, loss of lumbar lordosis
Mechanical Low Back pain
Shooting pain below the knee, commonly into the L5 or S1 typically accompanies
low back pain
PE: positive Straight leg and Cross leg test
Sciatica (Radicular Low Back Pain)
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Pseudoclaudication pain in the back or legs with walking that improves with rest
or lumbar flexion
Common age >60
Hypertrophic degenerative disease
Ankylosing spondylitis
Age onset <40
Chronic inflammatory disease that causes chronic back/spine stiffness
Diffuse idiopathic hyperostosis (DISH)
Age onset > 50
, 3
Calcification/ossification of spinal ligaments causing chronic back stiffness
Non inflam disease
Nocturnal Back Pain, unrelieved by rest
consider metastatic malignancy to the spine from cancer of the other parts of
body
Cauda Equina Syndrome
Low back pain associated with bladder symptoms
Saddle paresthesia
surgical emergency
Sacroilitis
Lumbosacral pain radiates to the buttocks, groin, or posterior thigh (usually in a
runner)
PE: Tenderness at SI joint
Rotator Cuff Tendonitis (Impingement Syndrome)
From overuse or fall in young adults and athletes
Pain radiating from front of shoulder to side of arm
Tenderness just below the tip of the acromion
Too much inflammation can decrease ROM
positive Drop arm test
Rotator cuff tear
Positive Empty Can/Thumb up Test
Rotator cuff tear or Supraspinatus injury
Dislocated shoulder
Shoulder instability
ADVANCED PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT FINAL EXAM LATEST
UPDATES -2025/2026- ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+ GUARANTEED SUCCESS
Acute diverticulititis involves which part of the colon?
The sigmoid colon
Irritable bowel syndrome symptoms
syms present more than 6 months
2 out of 3 features:
Improves with defecation
Onset with change in stool frequency
Onset with change in stool form
Decreased ROM
Cervical Radiculopathy
Sharp burning or tingling pain in neck & one arm
Caused by herniated disc (nerve root compression)
Can have tricep and bicep involvement
Cervical Myelopathy (cord compression)
Neck pain with bilateral weakness and paresthesia in both upper and lower
extremities, Palmar paresthesia
MEDICAL EMERGENCY, must stabilize neck
PE: Hyperreflexia, + babinski, gait changes
Red flags with Back pain for possible metastases
Age > 50
, 2
History of cancer
Unexplained weight loss
Back pain at night or present at rest
Think Malignacy
Aching pain in the lumbosacral area. PE: paraspinal muscle tenderness, pain with
movement, loss of lumbar lordosis
Mechanical Low Back pain
Shooting pain below the knee, commonly into the L5 or S1 typically accompanies
low back pain
PE: positive Straight leg and Cross leg test
Sciatica (Radicular Low Back Pain)
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Pseudoclaudication pain in the back or legs with walking that improves with rest
or lumbar flexion
Common age >60
Hypertrophic degenerative disease
Ankylosing spondylitis
Age onset <40
Chronic inflammatory disease that causes chronic back/spine stiffness
Diffuse idiopathic hyperostosis (DISH)
Age onset > 50
, 3
Calcification/ossification of spinal ligaments causing chronic back stiffness
Non inflam disease
Nocturnal Back Pain, unrelieved by rest
consider metastatic malignancy to the spine from cancer of the other parts of
body
Cauda Equina Syndrome
Low back pain associated with bladder symptoms
Saddle paresthesia
surgical emergency
Sacroilitis
Lumbosacral pain radiates to the buttocks, groin, or posterior thigh (usually in a
runner)
PE: Tenderness at SI joint
Rotator Cuff Tendonitis (Impingement Syndrome)
From overuse or fall in young adults and athletes
Pain radiating from front of shoulder to side of arm
Tenderness just below the tip of the acromion
Too much inflammation can decrease ROM
positive Drop arm test
Rotator cuff tear
Positive Empty Can/Thumb up Test
Rotator cuff tear or Supraspinatus injury
Dislocated shoulder
Shoulder instability
