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A patient exhibiting weakness of the latissimus dorsi may have a lesion of the long thoracic nerve.

Your patient comes in for their 6th visit following a shoulder injury.  You need to position your patient properly for testing.  The antigravity position for testing horizontal abduction is:

Your patient presents with a fracture of the greater tubercle of the humerus.  What shoulder muscle(s) may be affected by this fracture?

A patient is having an issue controlling the rate at which they drop a weight.  You instruct your patient to slowly lower a dumb bell after performing a bicep curl.  What type of muscle contraction are you trying to get the patient to perform

Identify structure #6:

Shoulder depression incorporates scapulothoracic depression and glenohumeral depression .

Your patient sustained an elbow injury leading to a varus deformation of the elbow. Which of the following structures has been compromised ?

What kind of lever system does the deltoid muscle represent?

Which of the following movements occur about an anterior-posterior axis of rotation?

You are working with a patient in an outpatient clinic.  You want to determine the amount of passive knee flexion range of motion they have.  You place the patient in prone and know that the range of motion may be limited in this position due to: