In order to fully expire, a person’s transverse thoracis must

What is the rank of discal pressure from most to least

The Loose-packed (open-pack) position for the talocrural joint is full dorsiflexion

The most common direction of a nucleus pulposus herniating is

A rhythmic gymnast goes into an extreme amount of lumbo-thoraco-cervical extension to perform an activity.  What ligament becomes taut with this activity?

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