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Page 1: Thoracic Spine. Thoracic Cage Anterior Thoracic Cage Posterior

Thoracic Spine

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Thoracic Cage Anterior

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Thoracic Cage Posterior

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Parathoracic Musculature

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Thoracic Musculature

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Adam’s Position

Procedure: Patient standing. Stand directly behind and inspect for scoliosis, hyperkyphosis, or kyphoscoliosis. Next. Patient should flex forward at hips. Inspect again.

Positive Test: If scoliosis, hyperkyphosis, or kyphoscoliosis reduces with forward bending: poor posture, overdevelopment of unilateral spinal and/or upper extremity musculature, nerve root compromise, leg length deficiency, or hip contracture.

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Adam’s Position

If scoliosis, hyperkyphosis, or kyphoscoliosis does not reduce with forward bending: structural deformity (i.e. hemivertebra, compression fracture) or idiopathic scoliosis.

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Adam’s Position

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Spinal Percussion

Procedure: Patient seated, head slightly flexed, percuss the spinous processes and associated musculature.

Positive Test:Local pain may indicate a fractured vertebra without neurological compromise or ligamentous sprain.

Radicular pain may indicate a fractured vertebra with neurological compromise or a disc defect with neurological compromise.

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Spinal Percussion

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Soto-Hall Test

Procedure: Patient supine, assist him in flexing the chin to the chest.

Positive Test:Local pain indicates osseous, discal, or ligamentous pathology.

Non-specific test. Simply isolates cervical and thoracic spine in passive flexion.

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Soto-Hall Test

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Sternal Compression

Procedure: Patient supine. Push down on sternum.

Positive Test: Pressure on the sternum compresses the lateral borders of the ribs. If a fracture is present here, pain will be produced or exacerbated.

Note: If trauma has occurred and you suspect a fractured rib, radiographs should be performed first before performing this test.

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Sternal Compression

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Beevor’s Sign

Procedure: Patient supine. Patient should hook fingers behind neck and raise the head towards the feet. Mimic a sit-up.

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Beevor’s Sign

Positive Test:The umbilicus will not move in a patient with not thoracic root lesion.

Umbilicus moves superiorly: bilateral T10 – T12 lesion

Umbilicus moves superiorly and laterally: Unilateral T10 – T12 nerve root lesion on opposite side.

Umbilicus moves inferiorly: bilateral T7 – T10 nerve root lesion.

Umbilicus moves inferiorly and laterally: Unilateral T7 – T10 nerve root lesion of the opposite side.

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Beevor’s Sign

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Schepelmann’s Sign

Procedure: Seated patient. Flex at waist to right and left.

Positive Test:Pain on side of lateral bending: intercostal neuritis.

Pain on opposite side of lateral bending: fibrous inflammation of the pleura or intercostal sprain.

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Schepelmann’s Sign

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Chest Expansion

Procedure: Patient seated. Place a tape measure around the patient’s chest at the level of the nipple. Instruct patient to exhale and record the measurement. Instruct the patient to inhale maximally and record the measurement.

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Chest Expansion

Positive Test:Normal chest expansion for a man is 2 inches or more.

Normal chest expansion for a woman is 1 inch or more.

A decrease in chest expansion indicates an ankylosing condition at the costotransverse or costovertebral articulation.

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Chest Expansion