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Table: Employment, Unemployment, and Labor Force Participation What was the unemployment rate of the country in 2009?

Lilly is a 15 y.o. soccer player who has been receiving PT following ACL repair 1 month ago. Your supervising PT has asked you to measure her LE strength and ROM to determine progress towards established goals. Upon entering the clinic, Lilly tells you that she fell onto her knee while climbing the bleachers at a basketball game last night. You note she has a large area of bruising to the anterior knee and an increase in pain. The most appropriate action is to:

Moderate point tenderness over the navicular and weakness with inversion and plantarflexion would be indicative of what injury?

When other factors such as health and illiteracy rates are added to global comparisons of GDP and population, which of the following is likely to be revealed?

You have been working with Mr. Cruz for the last several weeks following back surgery to repair a herniated disk. Today he is to be reassessed for overall trunk strength and ROM. Mr. Cruz reports to therapy and tells you that he burned his (L) wrist and hand yesterday in a cooking accident. The area is bandaged and he is scheduled to see his MD tomorrow. The most appropriate action is to:

The athlete complains of instability when walking and reports an MOI of tibial external rotation and valgus.  In addition, they present with knee ROM of 10 of Extension and 75 degrees of Flexion. and you suspect an injury to the ACL. What special test would you perform to confirm your suspicion of an ACL injury?

You are performing an ankle MMT and apply your resistance force in the direction of eversion and slight dorsiflexion.  Which of the following muscles is being tested?

What does the Physical Performance Test (PPT) measure?

Your patient is positioned in sitting and you have asked him to lift his arm in the frontal plane, and you then apply resistance over the distal humerus. Which of the following muscles are you MMT’ing?

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