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A patient with shoulder pain is receiving modalities and therapeutic exercise three times per week.  The chart indicates impingement syndrome is suspected.  At which one of the following joints or articulations would impingement of the supraspinatus tendon truly occur?

A PTA is treating a patient with an injury to the knee sustained while playing rugby.  Upon reviewing the initial evaluation, the PTA reads that the patient had a negative anterior drawer test and a positive McMurray’s test.  The patient MOST likely has a:

In the period after initial contact of gait, what type of muscle contraction takes place in the ankle dorsiflexors?

A 45 year-old female with a 6-month history of lateral epicondylitis is being treated in an outpatient clinic.  She reports gripping activities, such as those required when shoveling snow or playing tennis, being the most painful and wonders why.  The BEST explanation would be:

A PTA is working to provide gait training to a patient with a leg length discrepancy.  In documenting the gait observed, the PTA recognizes that the most accurate term to describe the first part of stance in all ambulatory people is:

A physical therapist assistant is treating a patient with medial epicondylitis and ongoing elbow pain.  Treatment is focused on improving length of the involved muscles/tendons.  Of the following, which muscle would MOST likely need to be stretched?

In what position would the rectus femoris be passively insufficient?

A 22 year-old female dancer is observed to over-pronate during gait.  Pronation of the foot is a combination of which of the following motions?

A patient with chronic pain of the left temporomandibular joint has pain when deviating the mandible to the right.  A physical therapist assistant measures the motion at 10mm.  This motion would be considered:

A patient being treated for 2nd degree medial collateral ligament strain is found to have achieved normal knee ROM five weeks after the initial injury.  During gait training, the PTA should see maximum knee flexion occur during this phase: