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A person is walking down the street and his/her rearfoot (hindfoot) goes into an unexpected excessive supination. What does  the Lisfranc joint facilitates for the foot to adapt to the surface?

Who is Daniel? How many classes does Daniel take? How does he get to school? At what time is his first class? Where does Daniel work? When? What does he like to do after class? Where do his parents live? With whom does he eat lunch after his class? Does he speak with his parents? When? Describe Daniel’s University.

A patient with progressive right coxofemoral osteoarthrosis arrives at your office with an abnormal gait pattern. During the evaluation, you observe that during right single leg standing there is a left hip drop. You hypothesized:

The plantar fascia functions as a “Tie rod on a truss like structure”, to facilitate the windlass mechanism. Complete this statement: “During gait as the meta-tarso-phalangeal joints go in extension, ___________________________:

A patient in supine displays a progressive increase of lumbar spine lordosis during the LOWERING phase of bilateral active straight leg raising -LOWERING of the extended lower limbs  What is MOST likely the cause of the observed increased lordosis?

When observing the interdependence of the leg and the foot in a weight bearing position; during the motion of knee extension when raising from a chair, you expect:

In a weight training machine for knee flexion (Moving from extension to flexion) The combined tibial rotation with flexion will be _______________.

A snowmobile driver left the trail and struck a tree. The driver’s left knee was flexed at approximately 90 degrees and the tibia was impacted anteriorly creating a vector force in a posterior direction (from anterior to posterior). What would this mechanism of injury MOST result in?

In a weight training machine for knee flexion (Moving from extension to flexion)     The menisci will move in a _______________ direction.

Which patterns of motions would be most limited if the coxo-femoral capsule is the main limiting structure?