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HPEX 353 VCU - chapter 9 questionswith complete solutions
Musculoskeletal System - correct answer ✔✔• Bones, joints, ligaments, muscle and tendons
• Skeleton: shape the body, provides physical support and protection for the organs. Responsible for
blood cell formation and storage of minerals.
• Muscles hold the skeleton and create physical movement of the body.
Two types of bones - correct answer ✔✔• Compact: dense, hard tissue found in the shafts of long
bones.
• Spongy: less dense, found at the end of long bones.
Three types of muscles - correct answer ✔✔• Skeletal/Voluntary: Movement is consciously controlled.
• Smooth/involuntary: not consciously controlled
• Cardiac: combination of both. Involuntary contract.
Lordosis, Kyphosis and Scoliosis - correct answer ✔✔Abnormal inward curvature of the lumbar or lower
spine.
• Lordosis: lower spine or lumbar area
• Kyphosis: upper thoracic vertebrae
• Scoliosis: spine, either left or right
• Associated with congenital spinal defects, posture, discrepancy in leg lengths, growth retardation,
generative arthritis or neuromuscular conditions.
Lordosis, Kyphosis and Scoliosis symptoms - correct answer ✔✔• Chronic Fatigue
• Backache
Lordosis, Kyphosis and Scoliosis medical diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔X-rays of the spine
, Lordosis, Kyphosis and Scoliosis - correct answer ✔✔• Physical therapy
• Exercise
• Surgery
Osteoporosis - correct answer ✔✔Metabolic bone disease.
• Women over age 50, postmenopausal
• Proportion of bone mineral to bone matrix normal. Bone composition abnormal
• Bones become brittle, porous and vulnerable. Decrease calcium and phosphate in bones
• Hereditary? Possible other factors: Calcium intake, diet, alcohol consumption, Vit D deficiency,
estrogen deficiency, etc.
Osteoporosis symptoms - correct answer ✔✔*Asymptomatic
• Fractures
• Bone pain (lower back)
• Loss of height
• Kyphosis
Osteoporosis medical diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔• DEXA
• Blood test for mineral content
Osteoporosis treatment - correct answer ✔✔• Increase intake of Ca, P and multivitamins
• Exercise
Osteomyelitis - correct answer ✔✔Acute and chronic infection of the bone forming tissue.
• Edema, inflammation and circulatory congestion of the bone marrow
• Associated with trauma and bacterial infection (Staphylococcus aureus )
Osteomyelitis symptoms - correct answer ✔✔*bone affected and mo
• Sudden onset of fever
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