A 30-year-old woman with chronic low back pain and generalized anxiety disorder presents with acute worsening of her pain. She denies fever, weight loss, or trauma. She reports that the pain is worst in the morning and improves with activity during the day. Vital signs are stable. On exam, there are limitations in lumbar flexion and extension, but the straight-leg raise is negative. Motor and sensory testing are normal bilaterally, and Achilles and patellar reflexes are +2. Which diagnostic test category is her back pain most likely to fall into?

A 45-year-old woman has shoulder pain and weakness with overhead activity. Drop-arm specialty test is positive, however her passive range of motion is preserved. What is the most likely diagnosis?

A 35-year-old active woman reports lateral hip pain that worsens with stair climbing, lying on the affected side, and during workouts. On exam, she has point tenderness over the greater trochanter but full range of motion in the hip joint. What is the most appropriate initial treatment? 

While assessing a 26 year old pregnant patient, the nurse notices the patient’s left leg is swollen.  Upon palpation, the nurse notes that the left calf area is red and hot to the touch.  What could be the most likely cause of this assessment finding?

  a) Describe three scalar variables and three vector variables that we looked at in this unit (include examples). b) Use a real world example that describes a situation where the average speed and the average velocity of an object would be different.    

A 48-year-old obese man presents with sharp heel pain that is worst with the first steps in the morning and improves with ambulation. On exam, there is point tenderness at the medial calcaneal tuberosity. He asks if a steroid injection would help right away.  What is the most appropriate initial treatment for this patient?

 A systems administrator has added a trusted user to the /etc/sudoers file. What command is associated with the /etc/sudoers file?

As an IT administrator, you are tasked with configuring an Apache web server by modifying the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file.  You open the file in vi.  As you’re looking at the file, you knock your spill-proof drink container onto the keyboard. It rolls over several keys as you try to pick it up. Now there are extra characters everywhere in the text buffer. Which of the following commands can you use to exit vi without saving any changes that were made to the text buffer?

A 63-year-old man with type 2 diabetes presents with sudden onset of severe left knee pain, swelling, and redness. He reports fever and difficulty bearing weight. On exam, the joint is hot, swollen, and exquisitely tender with pain at rest and with movement. Which is the likely cause of this joint pain?

 Which of the following commands will allow you to view the /etc/passwd file within the command line interface from the root directory?