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Hypothalmas - Answers - Major connection between nervous system and endocrine system neuro tissue Scope of practice - Answers - massage therapy is the assessment of the soft tissue and joints of the body and the treatment and prevention of physical dysfunction and pain The council is made up of.. - Answers - 6 - 9 RMTs elected by peers, 5-8 public members appointed by the government Client relations committee - Answers - ensures measures are in place to deal with client abuse discipline committee - Answers - conducts hearings relating it misconduct, makes decisions involving revoking or suspending certificates Executive Committee - Answers - has all the powers of council with the exception of making/revoking by-laws and regulations Fitness to Practise Committee - Answers - hears matters concerning the physical or mental capacity of a registrant to practise Central nervous system - Answers - Brain and spinal cord Peripheral nervous system - Answers - Spinal branches and cranial nerves Enteric nervous system - Answers - Influences all digestive processes Autonomic nervous system - Answers - Controls involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands. Myolin - Answers - isolates, increases conductivity of nerve Grey matter - Answers - Processes information Afferent neurons - Answers - Carry sensory information to the CNS Efferent nurons - Answers - Carry motor information away from the CNS A-delta fibres - Answers - myolinated fibres that transmit sharp fast highly localized pain
C-fibres - Answers - UNMYOLINATED fibres that carry slow, dull achey pooly localized pain Upper Motor Neuron Lesion (at / above T12) - Answers - Causes hyperreflexia Lower Motor Neuron Lesion - Answers - Causes Flaccidity sympathetic nervous system - Answers - Fight or flight responce Blood vessels only have _________ nerve supply - Answers - sympathetic neuro transmitters are stored here in an axon - Answers - axon terminal Axon hillock creates... - Answers - action potential schwan cells - Answers - support cells that produce myelin sheath for neurons in the peripheral nervous system Up regulation - Answers - Increased number of hormone receptors, increases uptake Down regulation - Answers - Cell makes less hormone receptors, prevents desensitizing Max fine for not reporting sexual abuse - Answers - 25, Max fine for committing sexual abuse - Answers - 35, Brown-Sequard syndrome - Answers - loss of motor / weakness and proprioception on same side as lesion, loss of pain and temperature on opposite side nodes of ranvier - Answers - Gaps in the myelin sheath of the axons of peripheral neruons. Action potentials can 'jump' from node to node, increasing speed of conduction (saltatory conduction). nerve - Answers - collection of axons in the PNS Tract - Answers - collection of axons in the CNS white matter - Answers - accumulation of axons within the CNS. fatty myelin sheath peripheral nervous system is made up of - Answers - 12 pairs of cranial nerves, 31 pairs of spinal nerves somatic nervous system - Answers - Voluntary, carries motor neurons to skeletal muscle tissue
corpus callosum - Answers - connects L & R hemispheres in brain Limbic system - Answers - "emotional brain" controls the basic emotions (fear, pleasure, anger) and drives (hunger, sex, dominance, care of offspring). Also controls smell (coorolation between smell and emotion) dopamine - Answers - A neurotransmitter associated with movement, attention and learning and the brain's pleasure and reward system. Basal ganglia - Answers - Regulates volentary movements. surpresses unwanted movements. internal carotid and vertebral arteries - Answers - carry blood to the brain jugular vein - Answers - returns blood from the brain astrocytes - Answers - Axon guidance and synaptic support, control of the blood brain barrier and blood flow vegas nerve - Answers - 80% of parasympathetic out flow digestive system - Answers - alone has equal nerve intervation as the rest of the body Epinephren / norepinephren - Answers - neuro transmitter used primarily in the sympathetic NS Acetocoline (ACh) - Answers - neuro transmitter use primarily in the parasympathetic NS Hormones - Answers - Chemical messangers used to regulate funtions in the body pituitary gland - Answers - Under the influence of the hypothalamus, it regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands. thyroid - Answers - produces hormones which control metabolism Cyanosis - Answers - common sign of congenital heart disease, a bluish discoloration of the skin from poor circulation / inadequate oxygenation of the blood T lymphocytes - Answers - AKA T cells. they are involved in fighting specific pathogens in the body. B lymphocytes - Answers - AKA B cells, Once B cells have been activated by a pathogen, they form plasma cells that produce antibodies.
Natural Killer Cells - Answers - AKA NK cells, are lymphocytes that are able to respond to pathogens and cancerous cells. NK cells travel within the blood. pathway of blood - Answers - superior vena cava, right atrium, tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonary valve, pulmonary trunk, left pulmonary artery, lungs, left pulmonary veins, left atrium, bicuspid valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, aorta, tissues of body Compound fracture - Answers - broken bone that protrudes from the skin simple fracture - Answers - bone has a break all the way through, skin around bone is not broken comminuted fracture - Answers - bone is splintered or crushed colles' fracture - Answers - fractured distal radius, moat common at the wrist pott's fracture - Answers - ankle fracture effecting one or both malleoli whiplash - Answers - an injury to the cervical vertebrae and their supporting structures due to a sudden acceleration - deceleration When is all testing besides AF ROM and neuro contraindicated in whiplash - Answers - Acute stage, grade 2 or above When should you refer a client with whiplash to a physician - Answers - if grade 4 whiplast is suspected, extreme muscle weakness or difficulty swallowing Grade 1 WAD - Answers - resolves in less than 3 weeks Grade 2 WAD - Answers - resolves in 4-6 weeks Grade 3 WAD - Answers - no time frame given for recovery Grade 4 WAD - Answers - surgical care likely, tendons ruptured Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - Answers - serious disorder involving clotts and plaques which can lead to pulmonary embolism pulmonary embolism (PE) - Answers - blockage of the lung's main artery by a substance that traveled from elsewhere through the bloodstream TOS - Answers - compression of the brachial plexus TOS compression sites - Answers - between clivical and first rib, anterior and middle scalenes, or coricoid process and pec minor.
Dermatome - Answers - region of body wall supplied by a single pair of dorsal root ganglia Migrane - Answers - vascular headache caused by vasodiolation of blood vessels. photophobia, phonophobia and Allodynia usually present sub-arachnoid hemorrhage - Answers - sudden severe headache "being hit by baseball bat" "Worst headache of my life" Temporal (giant cell) arteritis - Answers - Vasculitis of medium sized arteries. Temporal area, jaw painful. can cause blindness. symptoms of increasing intracranial pressure - Answers - aggravated by caughing, bending, laying down. Worse in the morning, improves after you get up. Piriformis syndrome - Answers - compresson of the siatic nerve by pirifromis muscle usually unilateral piriformis syndrome causes - Answers - overuse, abromalities in the cours of the nerve, trauma, postural concerns, inflamation. True ribs - Answers - Ribs pairs 1-7, attach directly to sternum via individual costal cartliages CVA - Answers - cerebral vascular accident (stroke) SARS - Answers - severe acute respiratory syndrome immunoglobulin - Answers - Proteins produced by plasma cells to respond to a immunogen. The 5 different types include: IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE, and IgD. Alzheimers - Answers - hippocampus effected (controls processing, making new memories, and retrieving old ones) decrease of acetylcholine (neuro transmitter for memory) meds can delay not cure
