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You observe a defensive back on the football team backpedal off the line of scrimmage. They plant their right foot and explode forward and immediately fall down. When you approach them, you hear them exclaim “”someone kicked me in the back of the leg!”” You immediately suspect what injury?

You suspect that Patel has a fibular fracture.  What tool would you use to help determine if Patel should be referred for x-rays?

An athlete has their foot forced into eversion while their foot is planted, hears a pop, and complains of pain in their midfoot. What is your initial suspicion for the type of injury that was sustained?

The two major components of mise-en-scene are design and composition.

According to the AAOS, the normal ROM for ulnar deviation is ______ degrees.

A therapist attempts to assess the strength of the tibialis anterior. To perform a manual muscle test, the therapist should position the lower extremity in ____________ and ask the patient to “hold”.

A basketball athlete comes to the AT facility two weeks after the season starts complaining of knee pain. She complains of anterior knee pain over the tibial tuberosity that increases as she gets further into practice, especially with squatting and jumping activities. She does not show a decrease in strength. She reports that her pain decreases following some rest, but she is at a point now where practicing is difficult secondary to pain. What injury do you suspect?

A parallel-plate capacitor is connected to a battery that maintains a constant potential difference V between the plates. If a dielectric is inserted between the plates of the capacitor:

Three point charges,  Q 1 = Q 2 = + 3 . 00 × 10 – 9   C  and  Q 3 , are located on a circular arc of radius R = 4 . 00   c m with center O at  ( 0 ,   0 ) c m , as shown in Fig. 1.1. (a) What is  Q 3  equal to if the electric field at O  ( 0 ,   0 ) c m  is zero? (b) What are the magnitude and direction of the total electric force exerting on a q = – 5 . 00 × 10 – 10   C point charge placed at P ( – 2 . 00 ,   0 ) c m ? (c) What would be the work done by electric force if is moved from point O to point P ( – 2 . 00 ,   0 ) c m ? Two identical spherical shells (M and N) of radius 4 . 00   c m are added in space with the center of shell M at  ( 3 . 00 ,   0 ) c m  and shell N at  ( 0 ,   – 9 . 00 ) c m , as shown in Fig. 1.2. If  + 5 . 00 × 10 – 9   C  and  – 5 . 00 × 10 – 9   C  are uniformly distributed on M and N, respectively. (d) What are the magnitude and direction of electric field at point O contributed by  Q 1 ,  Q 2 ,  Q 3 , and the charges on M and N? (e) What are the magnitude and direction of electric field at point P contributed by  Q 1 ,  Q 2 ,  Q 3 , and the charges on M and N? fig_q17_final.jpg

Your patient, Mrs. X, has been experiencing persistent back and hip pain when running. Her strength grades are WNL, however your supervising PT and you hypothesize that her pain is due to muscle tightness. As such, you are to perform a muscle length test for a patient’s Rectus Femoris.  You should position your patient in: