1. The best position to ease low back pain is:

2. The estimated intake of calcium to prevent bone loss for a postmenopausal woman is ______ mg/day. The actual intake is about ________ mg/day.

3. Most cases of osteomyelitis are caused by:

4. The most common benign bone tumor is:

5. The term for onychocryptosis, a common foot condition, is:

6. Bone formation is enhanced by:

7. Back pain is classified as “chronic” when the pain lasts without improvement for longer than:

8. The nurse should encourage a patient with low back pain to do all of the following except:

9. The specific treatment for chronic osteomyelitis would probably be:

10. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a neuropathy characterized by:

11. An overgrowth of the horny layer of epidermis on the foot is called a:

12. The average 75-year-old woman with osteoporosis has lost how much of her cortical bone?

13. Appropriate nursing actions when caring for a patient with a primary malignant bone tumor would include all of the following except:

14. When lifting objects, patients with low back pain should be encouraged to maximize the use of the following muscles:

15. The intervertebral disks that are subject to the greatest mechanical stress and greatest degenerative changes are:

16. Signs and symptoms of osteomyelitis may include all of the following except:

17. The most common symptoms of osteomalacia are: