In your 40-year-old patient, when she performs lumbar hyperextension, it causes increasing localized back pain with no radiation, and this pain reduces with lumbar flexion. This profile may indicate pathology of

A hurdler c/o leg pain. You suspect a hamstring avulsion fracture. Which of the following is a common site of hamstring avulsion fractures?

An athlete presents to the athletic training room with hip pain. During your evaluation, you notice that the athlete has a positive Trendelenburg test on the right side. What compensatory gait pattern would you expect to see if the athlete was placed on the treadmill?

Your ice hockey player with low back pain is also complaining of weakness in the quadriceps muscles after falling down on the ice. Which nerve do you think is being affected?

You examine a patint c/o pain in the hip. You choose to measure Nelaton s Line. This is an imaginary line drawn from ________ to _________.

After a hip fracture, your 55 year old patient develop Which of the following is NOT a  secondary complication of avascular necrosis?

What is the break test performed for the L2 nerve root?

When testing the back muscles of a 15 yr old runner, you test her spinal trunk flexors’ muscle function. Which of these muscles is a primary trunk flexor?

You are evaluating possible nerve root damage in your patient c/o pain in the back and hip. You start to examine the lumbar plexus that is associated w the femoral nerve. The femoral nerve innervates:

A 40 year old home-maker comes to you c/o. Sciatic nerve dysfunction symptoms. As you begin examining her back, you note that Sciatic nerve dysfunction symptoms can result commonly from a muscle spasm of which of the following: