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

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

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

The muscle(s) that are innervated by the femoral nerve L2-4, extend(s) the knee, and has 4 heads or bellies is the ___________.

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?

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 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?

Which of the following abnormality is this patient displaying at the knee, which may lead to arthritic and meniscal or ligamentous issues in due time?