Athletic Training Exam Review
A Student Guide to Success, 7th Edition
Description for Examination Assessment and Diagnosis.
A positive Thompson?s sign is indicative of what problem?
A grade I ankle inversion sprain involves which structure?
A positive Phalen?s sign is suspect of what problem?
What evaluative test is used to examine the integrity of the lateral collateral ligament of the knee?
If there is inflammation at the site of the medial epicondyle of the elbow, which of the following would be positive?
All of the following are signs of an injury, except:
Information gained during the palpation phase of the athletic trainer?s initial assessment might include all of the following, except:
A baseball player comes to see the athletic trainer and is complaining of diffuse pain, clicking, and a sensation of ?slipping? of his right shoulder when throwing. What pathology might the athletic trainer suspect with this type of presentation?
The ___________ pulse and ___________ pulse should be palpated after an acute traumatic injury to the knee area to make sure the peripheral circulation to the involved limb is adequate.
A type V Salter-Harris fracture involves what kind of fracture through the physeal plate?
A second-degree burn will have which of the following characteristics?
During your examination of a patient who has been complaining of weakness when using the rowing machine in the weight room, you notice his right latissimus dorsi muscle appears atrophied. Which nerve is affected?
The athlete may have difficulty performing what actions if the medial and lateral pectoral nerves are injured?
A patient is brought to the athletic training facility after being struck in the back of the head with a bat by accident. The patient is complaining of blurred vision. Which lobe of the brain has been affected?
Which 2 structures are injured with a Bankart lesion?
What is the sensation that a patient might experience just prior to an epileptic seizure called?
Changes in blood pressure may occur as a result of many factors. Two of these factors may include ___________ and ___________.
What is the primary target of the AIDS virus in the body?
All of the following are true about infectious mononucleosis, except:
What type of gait deviation might the athletic trainer see with a patient who has sustained an ankle injury and has decreased range of motion in dorsiflexion?
All of the following are risk factors for osteoporosis, except:
A patient with an infection or serious disease, such as leukemia, might demonstrate an abnormally raised white blood cell count. What is the normal leukocyte count?
A patient who sustains a severe or career-ending injury may go through a progression of emotional reactions, which are frequently seen with an individual who has experienced a significant loss. All of the following are included in this series of reactions, except:
Which of the following signs/symptoms are present in a depressed patient?
All of the following are possible factors regarding why a patient might be injury prone, except:
What happens when a patient consumes a simple sugar prior to an event?
Results of severe fluid restriction during weight loss attempts by a wrestler may include which of the following?
Body fat percentage should not go below ___________ in females because the internal organs lose a protective layer of fat.
A loss of water equaling what percent of body weight will begin to threaten athletic performances?
What is wrong with an athlete eating a 12- to 16-ounce steak, baked potato, scrambled eggs, and coffee with sugar 4 hours prior to an event?
Which of the following medications is not an NSAID?
Which of the following medications is not an antihistamine drug?
An athlete collides with a teammate during an ice hockey game and sustains a blow to the jaw with a hockey stick. He is holding his lower face with his hands and is in intense pain. All of the following procedures will assist the athletic trainer in determining if there is a fracture of the jaw, except:
During a return-to-play progression for a concussion, what is the typical time frame between stages?
What may proteinuria indicate?
Which of the following is one of the most common eye injuries sustained in athletics?
?Cauliflower ear? is an injury to which structure of the ear?
A baseball player has been stung by a bee. This player has a history of a severe allergy to bee stings. A couple of minutes after being stung, the area becomes red and raised and begins to itch. The athlete begins to complain that his tongue feels thick, and he starts to have difficulty breathing. What type of shock is he beginning to develop?
What is the typical mechanism of injury for an anterior shoulder dislocation?
After an acute musculoskeletal injury, such as a shoulder dislocation, the body releases a natural opiate-like substance that provides temporary pain relief. What is this substance called?
All of the following are useful in evaluating low back pathology, except:
Which muscle grade denotes active muscle movement in a gravity-eliminated position?
What is the average range of motion of elbow flexion?
What is a quick method of testing the motor ability of the sacroiliac nerve root?
To test the function of the rhomboid major muscle, the athletic trainer should ask the patient to perform what movement?
Which of the following cervical nerve roots represent the sensory dermatomes of the hand?
All of the following movements occur in the sagittal plane, except:
Which muscle supinates the forearm and flexes the shoulder?
The flexor pollicis longus is responsible for which of the following action(s)?
The rectus femoris muscle ___________ and ___________ when it contracts.
Asking the patient to move their eyes from side to side and up and down tests the integrity of which cranial nerve?
Which of the following muscles is not involved in internal rotation of the hip?
Which of the following muscles does not adduct the shoulder?
Which of the following muscles does not extend the trunk?
Following multiple ankle sprains over the course of the year, the athletic trainer detects some weakness of the invertors and evertors of a patient?s ankle. Which of the following muscles does not invert the ankle?
Which of these muscles are innervated by the tibial nerve?
What nerve passes through the carpal tunnel?
Which nerves innervate the hip adductor musculature?
Which of the following structures is not part of the pelvis?
Which of the following muscles abducts the little finger of the hand?
Which of the following muscles does not extend and laterally flex the neck?
What position is the ?recommended? position for manually muscle testing the gluteus medius muscle?
What is the average range of motion of knee flexion?
Which of the following is an indirect method of monitoring oxygen consumption?
In what position should the patient be to manually muscle test the hip flexors, and where should the athletic trainer?s force be directed during testing?
What position should the patient?s shoulder be in to manually muscle test the deltoids?
What is an excessive lateral curvature of the vertebral column called?
During your evaluation of a patient?s shoulder, you notice his left scapula is ?winging.? What does this indicate?
The maximal rate at which oxygen is consumed and utilized while exercising is known as the maximal oxygen consumption, or VO2 max. What is the normal range of VO2 max for an average college athlete?
During exercise, the body?s oxygen stores are greatly diminished. The recovery oxygen is used for all of the following, except:
Submaximal exercise tests, which evaluate physical working capacity by measuring heart rate increases with exercise, include all of the following, except:
A ___________ is a device used to measure joint range of motion.
Tenderness and pain with induration and swelling of the pretibial musculature following overexertion is indicative of which syndrome?
Speed?s test is an evaluative test for which of the following problems?
If a palpable ?clunk? or shift at approximately 20 to 30 degrees of knee flexion is found during a pivot-shift test, this may be indicative of what?
?Spearing? in football is a dangerous technique. Football coaches have discontinued this practice when teaching tackling techniques because it may cause severe head and neck injuries. What is the resulting force on the cervical spine when a football player spears an opponent?
What is the most common mechanism of injury for an anterior shoulder dislocation?
If the calcaneofibular ligament of the ankle is torn, which of the following would be positive?
When taking a history during a physical examination of a patient, all of the following information is pertinent, except:
What problem might the athletic trainer see if the L4 nerve root was compressed?
With the patient sitting, the scapula stabilized, and the shoulder maximally flexed, the patient complains of pain and appears apprehensive. This is a positive ___________ test.
A patient comes to the athletic training facility after being kicked in the lower leg by an opponent during a football game. He is complaining of decreased sensation in the L4 dermatome. What is this change in sensation called?
___________ and ___________ are 2 signs of diabetic coma.
Which of the following tests is used to detect a possible meniscal tear in the knee?
A patient reports to the athletic trainer with the presence of lesions on his upper lip and mouth area that look like blisters with a crusted yellow appearance and a red, weeping base. What is the probable cause of these lesions?
What is the usual mechanism of injury for a Colles? fracture?
Allen?s test is used to test what?
While training in a high-altitude climate (eg, 9000 to 10,000 feet), a rock climber experiences acute dyspnea, cough, headache, and weakness. What is the probable cause of these symptoms?
Which of the carpal bones is most commonly dislocated?
What type of force typically causes injury to the medial collateral ligament, medial meniscus, and anterior cruciate ligament of the knee?
An athlete sustains a neck injury during an ice hockey game and is complaining of numbness and tingling along the ulnar border of his forearm and fourth and fifth fingers. Which of the following roentgenograms would be most appropriate in detecting nerve root compression?
When testing for paresthesia of the C5 nerve root, where should the athletic trainer perform pinprick testing?
What is one of the most common symptoms of a lumbar discogenic injury?
When a patient reports to the athletic trainer complaining of lateral hip pain, all of the following conditions might be the source of pain, except:
All of the following injuries might be associated with a ?popping? sensation of the knee joint, except:
Foot pronation results in ___________ of the tibia during midsupport in the running gait.
An athlete sustains a blow to the head with a temporary loss of consciousness. He appears to have a lucid period in which he seems to be normal for a period of a couple of hours and then becomes significantly lethargic. What type of medical emergency would the athletic trainer suspect?
When evaluating a patient for Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease, the athletic trainer should be sure to do the following:
A tennis player comes to the athletic trainer complaining of medial thigh pain. He is limping and has pain with resisted hip adduction and hip flexion. There is diffuse tenderness and ecchymosis along the proximal aspect of the medial thigh. What is the probable cause of the pain?
A basketball player reports to the athletic training facility complaining of a ?burning? pain along the lateral aspect of his right knee during and after running. No edema or ecchymosis is found during the exam, but he is tender to palpation of the affected area. Which of the following special tests might be positive?
A patient presents with loss of strength at the L3 and L4 nerve root levels. What muscle should the athletic trainer test to confirm an injury at this level?
How is the strength of the pes anserinus musculature manually muscle tested?
During a track meet, you notice one of the runners appears somewhat disoriented. During your assessment of this athlete, you find he is complaining of being lightheaded, his skin is cool and clammy, he is sweating profusely, and his radial pulse is rapid. You take a rectal temperature and find it is mildly elevated (102?F). You suspect the athlete is suffering from which of the following problems?
One of your female gymnasts has been complaining of feeling generally fatigued on a constant basis. After being examined by the team physician, he orders a complete blood count. This blood test assesses all of the following, except:
During your examination of a football player who has sustained a low back injury during a tackle, you find that he is reporting dulled sensation along the dorsum of his right foot, he has difficulty walking on his heels, and his patellar tendon reflex is diminished. You suspect which of the following nerve root(s) is affected?
Sickle-cell anemia may cause rhabdomyolysis in the athlete. Which of the following is a cardinal sign of rhabdomyolysis?
What are the 3 most commonly affected organ systems in Marfan syndrome?
A patient reports having had a recent upper respiratory infection 2 weeks ago and is now having rapidly evolving bilateral muscle weakness of unknown origin. He is afebrile. What should the athletic trainer suspect?
Which of the following is the underlying cause of multiple sclerosis?
Mumps is a contagious viral disease that is primarily manifested by:
What is spina bifida occulta?
What is the incubation period for HIV and HPV?
Which of the following diseases is the most commonly inherited disorder among White Americans?
The patellar tendon reflex correlates to what spinal level?
How is cranial nerve VIII tested?
How is cranial nerve XI tested?
How is cranial nerve IX tested?
Lysosomes function to do which of the following during the inflammatory process?
During the inflammatory response, leukocytes are drawn to the site of injury by chemical mediators. This process is known as which of the following?
What is one of the greatest concerns and primary life-threatening effect of rhabdomyolysis?
If a patient whom an athletic trainer is working with has a history of asthma, what daily test should they use to monitor the patient?s condition?
A leading cause of hypothyroidism is Hashimoto?s thyroiditis, which is an autoimmune disorder. What is the primary symptom of this disease?
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is characterized by which of the following?
Which dermatome correlates to the T7 nerve root?
Which of the following tests is appropriate to perform if the athletic trainer suspects the patient has meningitis?
When using a glucose meter, the container of the test strips should be stored under what conditions to prevent deterioration?
A calibration procedure may be required when using a glucose meter to ensure accurate and reliable test results. When should this procedure occur?
The normal A1c level for an individual without diabetes is ___________.
The ___________ test is ordered by a health care provider periodically for patients already diagnosed with diabetes to evaluate the effectiveness of the diabetes management plan.
When measured using a glucose meter, blood glucose levels are displayed as:
Which of the following is a simple movement to check the integrity of the radial nerve?
You are covering a football game when 2 players collide. You notice that one player grabs his neck and shakes his arm. When you examine him, he complains of lateral neck discomfort and a feeling of ?numbness? or ?burning? down his arm. His arm is hanging limp by his side. In a few minutes, the symptoms subside. What do you suspect?
Which test, if positive, is indicative of a torn posterior cruciate ligament?
At what point should the athletic trainer?s initial evaluation of an injury begin?
Panner?s disease is an osteochondrosis of which of the following?
What quick test can be performed to check if nerve root L5 is intact?
Which of the following is not a good source of vitamin C?
The supinator muscle is innervated by which of the following nerves?
All of the following are controlled by the cranial nerves, except:
True leg-length discrepancy is measured between which 2 points?
Signs and symptoms of Sever?s disease include which of the following?
A football quarterback is sacked during a game. He comes off the field holding his throwing arm and complains of chest and anterior shoulder pain. After evaluating the athlete, the athletic trainer suspects a torn pectoralis major muscle. Which of the following physical findings will be seen if the athletic trainer is correct?
A patient is brought to the athletic training facility after sustaining a hard kick to the abdominal area. Which of the following symptoms is not a sign of a significant abdominal injury?
What is the proper position to manually muscle test the anterior deltoid?
Which of the following is an example of a papule?
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