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A 17-yo female was referred to an orthopedist for left hip pain, and imaging revealed a femoral neck stress fracture. She was placed on crutches and rest for 6 weeks. Recent imagining reveals complete bone healing, and she has been referred to begin rehab. ROM assessment reveals loss of hip internal rotation. Which hip joint mobilization would you perform to restore this ROM?

Describe 2 common positional faults that are shown to be present following lateral ankle sprains, and a brief description of how you would treat these findings.  

You are working with a patient in the early phases of rehab for PFP.  Which is the best exercise to minimize patellofemoral joint reaction force?

Below is the SPSS results of a univariate t-test to examine whether the mean is statistically significantly different from “4”. There are multiple ways to determine whether a sample mean is statistically significantly different from the expected (or known) value, using this univariate t-test results. Please identify those different methods and explain how to determine whether the sample mean is statistically significantly different from the known value of 4, using Alpha=.05 and the t-distribution table given along with the formula sheet. [SPSS Output]

Of the following joint mobilizations, which may be used to improve knee flexion ROM?  (select all)

External rotation of the tibia is associated with what motion of the subtalar joint?  What effect does this subtalar joint motion have on the midtarsal joint?  

You sample a population of butterflies and find that 56% are heterozygous at a particular locus. What should be the frequency of the recessive allele in this population?

Photorespiration is when

Which of the following accounts for someone who has had regular herpesvirus-mediated cold sore or genital sore flare-ups?

A scientist is working in a lab sequencing DNA. After reading the results from a column of gel scanned in a fluoroscope, she determines that the sequence of bases in the newly synthesized DNA is AATTCCCGG. Which one of the following represents the sequence of bases on the complementary strand?