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A sign of appendicitis, or some other abdominal affliction. It's an exam a doctor does to gauge abdominal pain/discomfort.
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How do you check for abdomenal rebound tenderness?
Abdominal rebound tenderness occurs when tissue when you touch the abdominal cavity has pain on the opposite side of the issue. A physician palpates the abdomen to check for rebound tenderness.
A sign also known as rebound tenderness?
Blumberg's sign
What does rebound and guarding mean?
Abdominal rebound tenderness occurs when the examiner slowly pushes down on the abdomen, then releases the hand quickly, eliciting a painful reaction (due to the reaction of rebound tenderness, and indicating underlying infection/inflammation in the abdominal cavity). Guarding indicates the patient's muscular bracing/tension when palpation begins to occur by the examiner.
Why isn't the test for rebound tenderness consistently recommended with the pediatric patient with an appendicitis?
it may cause more damage
What are the symptoms of acute appendicitis?
The most common symptom of acute appendicitis is pain in the lower right sight of the abdomen including rebound tenderness. Rebound tenderness means that it hurts more when a health care professional releases the pressure from examination than it does when he or she pushes on the abdomen. Symptoms can also include pain around the navel, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea, bloating, diarrhea, or constipation.
Grade for tenderness?
grade of tenderness?
When was The Rebound created?
The Rebound was created in 2009.
What shock absorber motion controls the least amount of weight compression or rebound?
Rebound.
What does rebound guy mean?
Recently out of a relationship & on the rebound.
What is the definintion for there was no guarding or rebound?
What is the definition for "there was no guarding or rebound?"
How we can use tenderness in a sentences?
She held the baby with tenderness.
How do you spell tenderness?
That is the correct spelling of "tenderness" (gentleness).
