In your experiences as a student radiographer, you will enco…

In your experiences as a student radiographer, you will encounter a variety of technologists, each with his or her own methods for performing procedures. Most will be quite good, but unfortunately some will be poor. As a student, you have a responsibility to recognize these various behaviors and assess their professional correctness. A firm reference point for determining the appropriate behavior for technologist behavior would be

Your patient is in short sitting at the edge of a treatment…

Your patient is in short sitting at the edge of a treatment table with thighs fully supported and legs hanging over the edge. You ask the patient to straighten his knee and lift his lower leg toward the ceiling keeping his thigh on the mat, and to hold that position against your downward force over that anterior surface of the leg just proximal to the ankle.  A. What is the highest muscle test grade your patient can earn in this position? ______ B. Name the individual muscle(s) are you attempting to MMT. (Do not use abbreviations)  ____________________________________________