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Your patient cannot perform the Hip Abduction MMT against gravity. You would then place them into the __________ position and ask them to move the limb through the full arc of motion in the gravity lessened position, resulting in a ____________ muscle grade.

Your patient has just undergone an anterior, cemented hip replacement with minimal invasion. What are the possible movement precautions for this pt?

The smaller a muscle’s cross-sectional area, the greater is its force or strength, or tension-producing potential, all other factors being equal.

Your patient has 84-85 degrees of knee flexion passively-what is the mimimal amount of functional ROM needed to sit, do stairs, and transfer sitting to standing?

Your patient has an acute ankle sprain; you have measured their circumference and found it to be 4 cm greater than their uninvolved ankle. What does he or she need in this stage that you may supply them, under the direction of the PT?

Your patient has very strong TFL function, but has weak Gluteus Medius and Mininmus MMT (manual muscle test). What sign, if any, may you see when they walk or go to single limb stance tests. as pictured here?    

Which of the following abnormality is this patient displaying at the knee, which may lead to arthritic and meniscal or ligamentous issues in due time?   

When testing an adult with a standard MMT, they could produce only a very minimum of resistance (2 finger’s worth) at the point of the standard m. test position or throughout the range; what score would you assign this test? (Sorry, could not find a picture with 2 fingers!)  

Within the field of physical therapy, goniometry is used to measure the total amount of available motion (actively or passively) at a specific joint, which is mostly osteokinematic in nature.

What lever class would we see with action of the knee extensors represent below, and how efficient is this lever type? (Efficiency would be how much mechanical advantage the lever possesses)