A test designed to measure the length of the iliopsoas.
What is the Thomas Test?
this ligament is the most commonly injured ligament and accounts for almost 50% of ligamentous knee injuries each year.
What is ACL?
(1:3500 in the US per year)
Abduction, Dorsiflexion, and eversion combine to make this motion at the ankle
What is pronation?
The longest Muscle in the body
medial malleolus is this dermatome.
What is L4?
The three ligaments that stabilize the hip.
What are Iliofemoral, Pubofemoral, Ischiofemoral ligaments?
In this test, the patient stands flat footed on one leg while the examiner supports the patient by holding their outstretched hands. The patient then flexes the knee to 5° and rotates the femur on the tibia medially and laterally three times, while maintaining the 5° flexion. The uninjured leg is tested first so that the patient may be trained with regard to how to keep the knee in the flexed position. The test is then repeated at 20° flexion.
The primary action of this muscle is extension of the great toe.
What is extensor hallucis longus?
Moving ones foot to maintain balance after an unexpected challenge or perturbation
What is stepping strategy?
This muscle medially rotates the leg at the knee joint while this joint is held in a semiflexed position, assists in flexion of the leg at the knee joint & assists in adduction of the thigh at the hip joint.
What is gracilis?
These 2 muscles have attachments to the IT band.
What are gluteus medius and tensor fascia lata?
This is inflammation of the tendon that connects the kneecap to the shinbone.
What is Osgood-Schlatter?
This injury results in pain and numbness along the medial portion of the ankle, posterior to the medial malleolus.
What is tarsal tunnel syndrome?
This Orthosis assists patient with absent voluntary knee contraction avoid genu recurvatum
What is KAFO?
The number of heel raises a patient needs to perform to score a 4/5 when testing plantar flexion.
What is 10?
This muscle impacts Toe off (pre-swing) and acceleration (initial swing) phases of gait the most.
What is iliopsoas?
this muscle helps stabilize the knee joint during walking by rotating the femur laterally during the closed-chain phase of the gait cycle and rotating the tibia medially during the open-chain phase
What is popliteus?
A 20-year-old male football player presents to the clinic with an ankle injury. The patient was tackled while his foot was stuck in the grass. He can take 5-6 steps at a time due to pain and has only mild ankle swelling. There is no tenderness over the lateral or medial malleoli. He had a negative talar tilt test and anterior drawer but a positive Kleiger’s test. This diagnosis is MOST consistent with the patient’s symptoms.
Flexion-adduction-external rotation pattern and extension-abduction-internal rotation pattern at the Lower extremity.
What is D1?
Increased Quad and decreased hamstring activity are indicative of which phase of gait
What is loading response?
You’re evaluating a 48 year old male with generalized hip pain direct access. The patient reports he had insidious onset of hip pain about 2 years ago and it’s gradually worsened. He denies having any imaging. He reports some clicking and popping of the hip on occasion & trouble stepping over the bathtub edge to get into his shower due to pain. He indicates pain along the hip, the groin, around the buttocks and at the antero-medial thigh. He also has a history of alcohol and steroid abuse and is a smoker. This diagnosis is imperative to clear.
What is avascular necrosis?
For return to sport, The moon protocol recommends this number on answer #10 on the IKDC survey.
What is 9 or greater?
Talipes equinovarus, also known as Club foot, causes the foot to be deformed in these three directions.
What are Adduction of the forefoot, Varus of the hind foot, and PF at the ankle?
Symptoms of this include Significant foot drop combined with Numbness and tingling from the great toe up to the knee along the anterior leg.
What is L5 nerve entrapment?
this nerve corresponds with the L3 dermatome.
What is femoral nerve?