Patients with COPD often have a “vicious circle of fatigue and dyspnea” according to Neumann.  One component of this vicious circle is the malpositioning of the diaphragm due to “barrel-chest”.  What is this malpositioning of the diaphragm?

A person receives an interosseous pinning between a tibia and fibula to surgically fixate this joint.  As a result, arthrokinematically, it would make sense that regaining (plantarflexion/dorsiflexion) of the talocrural joint may be difficult

Which muscle group is better designed to perform finer motion controls to move head to improve quality of visual sense, auditory sense, and olfactory sense that are synergistically integrated in our brain with eye muscles.

The annulus fibrosis

Scenario:  You have your patient in side lying with the knee extended during your initial evaluation. You find that the patient can abduct their hip about 15 degrees. Because of the lack of full ROM against gravity, you most likely expect weakness of the

Which statement about the multifidi muscles is FALSE.

Which of the following best defines the term Arthrokinematics?

The close-pack position of the hip is

Your patient is performing a diagonal sit up exercise with trunk rotation to the left.  What are the primary muscles that work in synergy needed to perform this motion?

You assess the flexion motion of the tibiofemoral joint in prone with hip at 15 degrees of extension and note end feel as “Firm-Muscular” while patient indicates stretch in anterior mid-thigh.  This is ____________ for the tibiofemoral joint.