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As you review X-rays of Lx spine in a pt w/back pain – you explain that you are looking for this condition ………..  also known as the decapitated Scottie dog.

As you measure normal anthropometrics, you examine an athlete’s Q Angle. Which of the following techniques measures the Q angle?

In a Contracture Gait abnormality pattern, if the problem is at the ___, the athlete will present with increased lumbar lordosis and knee flexion

When discussing lumbosacral movement, your preceptor mentions that the athlete has nutation. Which of these is correct. The athlete has:

As you examine lumbar pain in a patient, you use this test – a test that is used to assess increased intrathecal pressure.

When coming back an reporting to you the results of an MRI Scan, your 50 year old tennis player mentions that the radiologist has mentioned that he has this condition – that occurs as a result of narrowing of the vertebral foramen

What area/structures articulate with the vertebra below and/or above?

You examine nerve supply when testing low back pain in your 25 year old baseball player. What nerve generally innervates the posterior musculature of the thigh?

You are examining possible knee ligament injury in a baseball runner who hit his knee on a base plate when stealing a run.  Which of the following is the strongest ligament of the knee?

Which muscle is affected when you note that your patient has a Trendelenburg Gait