Ankylosis- The stiffening or immobility of a joint resulting from disease, trauma, surgery, or bone fusion.
Aphasia- defect or loss of the power of expression by speech, writing, or signs, or of comprehending
spoken or written language, due to injury or disease of the brain centers.
Apraxia- A disorder of voluntary movement consisting of the partial or complete inability to execute
purposeful movements without the impairment of muscular power and coordination.
Ataxia- failure of muscular coordination; irregularity of muscular action
Bursa- a fluid-filled sac or saclike cavity situated in places in tissues where friction would otherwise occur
Clonic- the alternating pattern of releasing and tightening a muscle
Contracture- An abnormal, often permanent shortening, as of muscle or scar tissue, that results in
distortion or deformity, especially of a joint of the body.
CVA- cerebrovascular accident
Dystonia- abnormality of muscular tonus.
Crepitus- a crackling sound such as that produced by the rubbing together of fragments of a fractured
bone or by air moving in a tissue space
Flaccidity- quality of lack of tone of muscular or vascular organ or tissue.
Hemiplegia- Paralysis affecting only one side of the body.
Kyphosis- abnormally increased convexity in the curvature of the thoracic spine as viewed from the side.
Lordosis- An abnormal forward curvature of the spine in the lumbar region.
Meningitis- Inflammation of the meninges of the brain and the spinal cord, most often the result of a
bacterial or viral infection and characterized by fever, vomiting, intense headache, and stiff neck.
Myelitis- Inflammation of the spinal cord. Inflammation of the bone marrow.
Myopathy- Any of various abnormal conditions or diseases of the muscular tissues
Neuralgia- Sharp, severe paroxysmal pain extending along a nerve or group of nerves
Osteoporosis- A disease characterized by decrease in bone mass and density, occurring especially in
postmenopausal women, resulting in a predisposition to fractures and bone deformities such as vertebral
collapse
Paralysis- loss or impairment of motor function in a part due to a lesion of the neural or muscular
mechanism
ROM- range of motion
Sciatica- Pain along the sciatic nerve that radiates from the lower back to the buttocks and back of the
thigh and is usually caused by a herniated disk of the lumbar region of the spine.
Spasticity- a form of muscular hypertonicity with increased resistance to stretch.
Syncope- A brief loss of consciousness caused by a sudden fall of blood pressure or failure of the cardiac
systole, resulting in cerebral anemia.
Tonic- producing and restoring normal tone.