Your 42 year-old male construction worker presents to your c…
Your 42 year-old male construction worker presents to your clinic with complaints of frequent knee-joint buckling due to a significant loss of strength to his quadriceps muscles. He’s been diagnosed with a herniated lumbar disc involving compression to the nerve root. The physician’s order is to find an appropriate brace to help stabilize his knee and whole lower leg. You decide to fit him with a KAFO brace. Which spinal level would be involved that likely is responsible for his knee buckling?
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