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  Answer the following. What muscle is being targeted? What muscle grade should this person have to be using dumbbells? What action is being performed? What is the plane and axis of rotation?

  1. What muscle action is this person performing? 2. What is the muscle performing this action? 3. What is the nerve that innervates this muscle? 4. How would you strengthen this muscle if the manual muscle testing grade was a 2-/5?

This muscle is missing in approximately 21% of individuals, either unilaterally or bilaterally.  1. Provide the names of this muscle.

  1. Which of the rotator cuff muscles is the arrow pointing to? 2. What is this muscles main action?  

This muscle is missing in approximately 21% of individuals, either unilaterally or bilaterally.  1. Provide the names of this muscle. 2. Provide the OINA of this muscle.

Bonus one point   What muscles is being stretched? What action(s) does this muscle perform?

What is this bone? Is it anterior or posterior?  

This person has a knee extension lag.  1. Which muscle is shortened due to this flexion contracture? 2. How would you stretch the shortened muscle? Give clear instructions as if you were explaining it to a patient. (3 points for effective exercise and clear directions; 2 points for effective exercise but lacking in clear instructions; 1 point for naming an exercise but not providing directions; 0 points for blank or ineffective exercise).

  1. Which rotator cuff muscle is this? 2. What is its main action?

Starting at the proximal row, medially moving laterally, identify the carpal bones.        Starting at the distal row, medially moving lagerally, identify the carpal bones.