Final Exam: NR511 / NR 511 (Latest
Update 2024 / 2025) Differential Diagnosis & Primary Care Practicum | Weeks 5 – 8 Exam Study Guide| 100% Correct | Grade A - Chamberlain
Question:
a 22 year old man is diagnosed with acute low back strains and is given NSAIDs. what educated is needed?
Answer:
lower back strengthening exercises
Question:
which of the following is the most commonly associated with vertebral fractures?
Answer:
osteoporosis
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Question:
A 52 year old OBESE male presents to the clinic with complaints of numbness and tingling in the right leg for a month. He denies pains but feels pins and needles in the anterior right thigh. He cannot recall a trigger. Nothing relieves or aggravates. Physical exam shows negative straight leg raise. Dull sensation on needle prick to left thigh. DTR are 3+. The clinician looks back and sees there’s been no changes, except that the patient has gained 25 lbs. Based on these findings, which should be included in the differential diagnosis?
Answer:
Neuralgia Paresthesia
Question:
Which tests are used for numbness in hand, finger's, or wrist?
Answer:
Phalen and Tinel
Question:
a 74 year old male presents with bilateral back and leg pain for 6 months. The leg pain is greater than the back pain and describes it as a shooting down her legs? What in the history makes you think it is lumbar spinal stenosis?
Answer:
Leaning on grocery cart
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Question:
Which diagnostic used for acute lumbar radiculopathy?
Answer:
MRI
Question:
Hilda, age 73, presents with a complaint of low back pain. Red flags in her history of a minor fall, osteopenia, and prolonged steroid use for systemic lupus erythematosus suggest the possibility of which of the following serious underlying conditions as the cause of her low back pain?
Answer:
spinal fracture
Question:
What is the first line treatment for a patient with cervical spondylosis without myelopathy symptoms?
Answer:
Physical therapy
Question:
A 49 year old female presents with pain on soul of her foot between 3-4 toe, feels like a pebble in her shoe. what is this?
Answer:
Morton’s neuroma 3 / 4
Question:
a 79 year old male reports neck stiffness and aching discomfort on his right.The pain is aggravated with activity and has been progressing over the last year. full strength of the others and the DTRs are 2+, slightly limited of neck towards the right. Plain radiograph shows degeneration.
Answer:
Cervical spondylosis
Question:
A 55-year-old female client presents with complaints of pain and paresthesia’s in the left ulnar aspect of the forearm, thumb, and middle finger following a C6 & C7 nerve root dermatomal pattern. What is the most likely diagnosis?
Answer:
cervical radiculopathy
Question:
A 12 YEAR old presents with another sprain. The NP thinks she may have never been taught on injury management. What could she teach him?
Answer:
Stretching is important
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