COMLEX phrasing: rib question

[2001bmw330xi]

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So a friend of mine took it today. He was telling me about the particular phrasing of a rib question that I thought I would pose here.

If you read a question stem that said a rib was "limited to exhalation", what dysfunction would that indicate in your mind?

He said he had to re-read the sentence a few times but still wasn't sure. I would think it means "stuck in exhalation" or that exhalation was the "ease", so exhalation dysfunction. He said the opposite.

 

[DiverDoc]

So a friend of mine took it today. He was telling me about the particular phrasing of a rib question that I thought I would pose here.

If you read a question stem that said a rib was "limited to exhalation", what dysfunction would that indicate in your mind?

He said he had to re-read the sentence a few times but still wasn't sure. I would think it means "stuck in exhalation" or that exhalation was the "ease", so exhalation dysfunction. He said the opposite.

Limited TO exhalation would indicate IMO that that is where it lives.=exhalation dysfunction

 

[DC DOC]

So a friend of mine took it today. He was telling me about the particular phrasing of a rib question that I thought I would pose here.

If you read a question stem that said a rib was "limited to exhalation", what dysfunction would that indicate in your mind?

He said he had to re-read the sentence a few times but still wasn't sure. I would think it means "stuck in exhalation" or that exhalation was the "ease", so exhalation dysfunction. He said the opposite.

I agree with DiverDoc and yourself. If it is "limited TO a motion" then it cannot go in the opposite direction of inhalation and it is stuck inferior in exhalation and restricted in inhalation, aka exhalation dysfunction. Treat w/ muscle energy right? I haven't looked at OMT in weeks.