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Your patient presents with a new finding today of a possible blot clot. Your assignment is to range and exercise them. What is your best and safest decision?

The muscle(s) that are innervated by the femoral nerve L2-4, extend(s) the knee, and has 4 heads or bellies is the ___________.

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

What is the “force couple” of muscles that is at work at the pelvis during this manuever?   

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?

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.

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?   

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)