Patient Assessment & Clinical Evaluation Flashcards
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A patient undergoing AK evaluation demonstrates a positive therapy localization to the ileocecal valve (ICV) area. Clinically, this finding is most often associated with:
Answer: Either toxin retention or too-rapid transit of intestinal contents
ICV dysfunction in AK can manifest as either a closed valve (toxin retention) or an open valve (too-rapid transit), both affecting systemic health.
During AK assessment of ocular lock, the clinician asks the patient to look in specific directions while muscle testing because:
Answer: Gaze direction influences tonus of ipsilateral antigravity muscles
In AK, ocular lock refers to eye positions that cause neurological locking, weakening antigravity muscles on the same side as the gaze.
Which manual muscle test is specifically used in AK to evaluate the strength of the pectoralis major clavicular division?
Answer: Horizontal flexion of the shoulder from 90° abduction
The pectoralis major clavicular head is best isolated by testing horizontal flexion (adduction) from 90° shoulder abduction.
In AK, when the examiner finds that a muscle strengthens when the patient holds a deep inhalation, this suggests the dysfunction is related to:
Answer: Diaphragm facilitation improving core muscle tone
Strengthening with deep inhalation in AK indicates the diaphragm's facilitation is influencing the indicator muscle's neurological status.
A clinician applying AK assessment notes that a patient's muscle weakness resolves after spindle cell manipulation (muscle belly compression). This indicates the primary problem is:
Answer: Hypotonicity from underactive muscle spindle afferent signaling
Muscle spindle compression resets the spindle cell sensitivity, correcting hypotonicity caused by under-firing proprioceptive afferents.
In clinical AK evaluation, 'switching' or neurological disorganization is suspected when:
Answer: Muscle test results are inconsistent, reversed, or contradict all other findings
Neurological disorganization (switching) produces paradoxical or unreliable muscle test results that do not fit expected clinical patterns.
When using the AK assessment model to evaluate a patient's stomatognathic system, the clinician would most likely test which muscle to reflect TMJ function?
Answer: Pterygoid and masseter via indicator muscles
TMJ dysfunction in AK is assessed using pterygoid and masseter therapy localization combined with indicator muscle changes.