By body region
Spine
Everything the atlas holds on the spine, gathered in one place: 3 joints with their movements and normal ranges, 8 clinical tests, 9 bony palpation landmarks and 7 conditions, with the structures they point to.
Joints
- Facet joints (artt. zygapophysiales)
- Atlantoaxial joint (art. atlantoaxialis)
- Intervertebral disc (symphysis intervertebralis)
Clinical tests
- Straight leg raise
- Spurling test
- Slump test
- Posteroanterior pressure
- Prone instability test
- Femoral nerve stretch test
- Wainner test cluster
- Romberg test
Palpation points
- Spinous process of C7
- Spinous process of L4
- Mastoid process
- External occipital protuberance
- Sternal angle (angle of Louis)
- Xiphoid process
- Median sacral crest
- Tenth rib in the midaxillary line
- Superior nuchal line