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Force Completion This test can be saved and resumed at any point until time has expired. The timer will continue to run if you leave the test. This test does not allow backtracking. Changes to the answer after submission are prohibited. Remaining Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes, 16 seconds. Question Completion Status: Moving to the next question prevents changes to this answer. Quèstion 16 The nurse is performing the Romberg test. What would be an abnormal finding? O Minimal swaying e Lack of arm swing with walking O Losing balance O Opening their eyes A Moving to the next question prevents changes to this answer.

Answer 1

ROMBERG TEST:- IT is used as neurological test for balancing to assess the sense of positioning of the body to check the helathy functioning of the dorsal column of the spibnal cord.This test is used in ataxia ,sensory motor disorders.

in this test when the nurse said to patient to stand in upright position and to close the eyes -the patient losses his equilibrium which is considered as Romberg's positive.If the patient is well balancing whether by opened eyes or closed eyes considered as Romberg's negative

Hence the abnormal finding in the Romberg's test is loss of balance .