You are on your first clinical affiliation working with your first patient of the day. Your Clinical Instructor (CI) instructs you to assist the patient with her exercises. Her first exercise is written as “glute sets”. What does that mean?

Which of the following terms describes a treatment technique that should be performed at low intensity, non-fatiguing in order increase tissue temperature?

Considerations to be considered when planning an exercise program include all of the following EXCEPT:

A patient reports they injured their leg getting tackled to the ground with excessive dorsiflexion. A few days later you hear that he has sustained a Grade III tear of his Achilles tendon. You know a Grade III injury to the Achilles tendon means all of the following except:

You are performing passive range of motion into flexion of the left hip when you realize that your patient has been assisting the motion using their hip flexors. You should:

Which of the following structures is identified in YELLOW in the following picture?spine1_LI(3).jpg 

A patient presents to the clinic with complaints of chronic Achilles tendon pain with imaging that had revealed thickening of the tendon. Which of the following best describes the patient’s condition?

You are treating a patient who was diagnosed with an avulsion fracture of the lateral epicondyle. Which of the following attaches to the lateral epicondyle?

You have been seeing a patient for the past three months for supraspinatus tendonitis which began one month prior to initiating treatment. The patient is continuing to complain of swelling, pain and limited range of motion of the shoulder with multiple flare ups as the patient has decided to paint his house during the past month. You place the patient in the following phase of healing:

A physical therapist assistant has just started to add low level strengthening exercises to a patient’s program after injury. Which of the following exercises would be most appropriate to add first?