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 A physical therapist is working with a patient that has a lumbar scoliosis that is concave on the left side. Which of the following patient positions should the physical therapist use to correctly apply a stretch to this patient’s tight lumbar paraspinal muscles?  

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Which of the following are actions of the rhomboid major muscle on the movement of the scapula?  

Backpropagation through time. Consider a simple recurrent neural network with scalar parameters . The internal state and the model’s prediction are computed as follows:

During the physical therapist’s assessment of cranial nerves, the patient is unable to detect when you touch their cheek. Which cranial nerve would be impaired in this patient?  

A physical therapist performs the special tests pictured below that involve the patient actively pulling their elbow into flexion to help diagnose a SLAP tear in the left shoulder. Why are these tests useful in identifying a SLAP lesion? 

The patient presents with a limitation in knee flexion of 65 degrees while both in the prone and in the short-seated positions.  Both are only painful at the end range of flexion.  Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate intervention to increase knee flexion ROM?

Which of the following correctly depicts the maximal amount of hip range of motion during normal gait? 

What is the rate at which axons can regrow following a neurological injury? 

The patient has toe drag during initial swing and excessive hip and knee flexion during mid swing.  Which of the following is the most likely cause of these deviations?