Your new patient is acutely injured and is in spasm in his hamstring mm. after a partial tear. What is the pain and spasm cycle and how could you help him get out of it? (under the direction of the PT)

Your patient has a “hard, sudden stop” at the near the end of knee extension. This would possibly indicate what?

Your patient needs to stretch his or her hamstring muscles; you can utilize either the “contract-relax” or “reciprocal inhibition” to enhance the stretch in order to gain more motion.

Your patient cannot perform the Hip Abduction MMT against gravity. You would then place them into the __________ position and ask them to move the limb through the full arc of motion in the gravity lessened position, resulting in a ____________ muscle grade.

Your patient presents with a new finding today of a possible blot clot. Your assignment is to range and exercise them. What is your best and safest decision?

What is the “force couple” of muscles that is at work at the pelvis during this manuever?   

Your patient has 84-85 degrees of knee flexion passively-what is the mimimal amount of functional ROM needed to sit, do stairs, and transfer sitting to standing?

Your patient has just undergone an anterior, cemented hip replacement with minimal invasion. What are the possible movement precautions for this pt?

Your patient has an acute ankle sprain; you have measured their circumference and found it to be 4 cm greater than their uninvolved ankle. What does he or she need in this stage that you may supply them, under the direction of the PT?

The smaller a muscle’s cross-sectional area, the greater is its force or strength, or tension-producing potential, all other factors being equal.