Flex Therapist CEUs

1. A previous study found that mechanical traction in combination with extension exercises can result in significant improvement in disability and fear-avoidance beliefs after _____ of treatment compared to extension exercises alone for patients with acute LBP and nerve root compression symptoms.

2. It was found that using inversion traction plus physical therapy in patients awaiting surgery for disc herniation, helped 100% of them avoid surgery compared to physical therapy alone that helped only 22% avoid surgery.

3. It has been reported that when prescribing the inversion traction for patients with chronic LBP, a tilt degree of the traction table of _____ resulted in improved levels of pain, spine flexibility, and trunk extensors strength compared to other tilt degrees.

4. Aquatic traction has been found to result in significant pain reduction and centralization of symptoms compared to land-based exercises in patients with chronic LBP associated with nerve root compression symptoms.

5. Which of the following traction interventions have the capacity to generate specific forces and rhythms that can be quantified?

6. Which of the following involves a traction force that is dependent on the skill and strength of the clinician?

7. Which of the following involves a traction force that is dependent on the skill and strength of the patient?

8. Which of the following involves a traction force that varies according to the patient’s body weight and/or externally applied weight attachments?

9. It has been officially determined that a traction force of 25% of body weight creates the separation between lumbar vertebra to be the level of traction force that is optimal and most therapeutic.

10. Traction mechanisms to relieve pain seems to do all of the following, except:

11. The use of mechanical traction in the management of patients with chronic low back pain / degenerative spine disorders has generally not been endorsed by evidence-based practice guidelines.

12. Lumbar extension traction with stretching exercises and infrared radiation was statistically superior to stretching exercises and infrared radiation alone for improving all of the following in chronic mechanical LBP, except:

13. After measuring the outcome of conservative physical therapy with traction by using magnetic resonance imaging and clinical parameters in patients presenting with LBP caused by lumbar disc herniation, all of the following were found to be true, except:

14. Compared to those given only a physical therapy program, those given a physical therapy program and continuous lumbar traction, statistically relevant improvements led to which of the following conclusions about lumbar traction?

15. How many lumbar extensions, in addition to stretching exercises and infrared radiation, were found to improve the spine sagittal balance parameters and decrease the disability in those with chronic mechanical LBP?

16. Traction applied in the supine position for 8 weeks is associated with clinical improvements until the end of the follow-up, 180 days after discharge.

17. All of the following were main adverse effects of inversion traction, except for:

18. Lumbar traction seems to produce positive results in nerve root compression symptoms.

19. To date, the use of lumbar traction therapy alone in LBP management is not recommended by the best available evidence.

20. Limited spinal mobility is the major complaint concerning the spine.

21. The decompression of the _____ may result in the reduction of excessive tension of adjacent muscles of the spine and in pain relief.

22. One of the main tasks of traction is to decompress the:

23. Which of the following was observed in all patients that underwent Saunders lumbar traction for disc herniation with symptoms of unilateral pain radiating to the lower limb and muscle weakness on the side of pain?

24. Saunders proposed a traction force of _____ pounds as most optimal.

25. When compared to before traction, X-ray findings revealed the increase of intervertebral disc space after traction using the Saunders device.

26. Many patients reported malaise during a few minutes’ session when using the Saunders axial traction device. These were usually patients with:

27. The main goal of the Multiple Impulse Therapy is:

28. Lower levels of ODI were noted for patients treated with the Saunders method as compared to Multiple Impulse Therapy, meaning that the Saunders method gives better results than the Multiple Impulse Therapy treatment.