Muscles Lower Extremity
This muscle can be stretched by placing the knee into extension and the talocrural joint into dorsiflexion.
What is the gastrocnemius muscle?
This nerve innervates the infraspinatus muscle.
What is the suprascapular nerve?
Muscles commonly involved in ITband issues.
What are Gluteus Maximus and TFL?
In this test, the patient places dorsum of hands together & reports any pain/tingling numbness in digits 1-3.
What is Phalen's test for CTS?
Two special tests for meniscal injury
What is Apley's compression, Thessaly's, McMurray's
This muscle has an attachment at the ischial tuberosity and the medial condyle of the tibia.
What is semimembranosus?
This muscle flexes the forearm and can also pronate and supinate the forearm depending on the position of the forearm.
What is the brachioradialis?
Shoulder muscle most commonly injured
What is supraspinatus?
Two tests for impingement of the GH joint.
What is Neers & Hawkins Kennedy
Special test for acetabular labral tear.
What is FADDIR/hip scour?
This muscle has the action of hip flexion, abduction and medial rotation.
What is TFL?
The expected end-feel for shoulder adduction.
What is soft-tissue approximation?
MOI: gradual onset. Pain and inflammation in the anterior hip/groin, especially with resisted hip flexion.
What is iliopsoas bursitis?
This tests for Dequervain's Tenosynovitis.
What is Finkelstein's test?
This ligament (and associated test) resists anterior translation of the tibia on the femur.
What is the ACL/Anterior drawer test?
The origin of this muscle is the anterior surfaces of T12-L5 vertebrae and the insertion is the lesser trochanter of the femur.
This muscle inserts on the midshaft of the humerus, and has the primary actions of shoulder flexion and adduction.
What is coracobrachialis?
Mechanism of injury: Plant and twist at the knee, followed by pain at the anterior/medial joint line. The condition is:
What is medial meniscus tear?
This test assesses for blood flow to the hand via the radial and ulnar arteries.
What is Allen's test?
This test creates a medial bowing of the knee joint line to assess for the medial collateral ligament.
What is the valgus stress test?
This muscle originates on the posterior aspect of the tibia and fibula and has the actions of plantar flexion and inversion.
What is the Tibialis Posterior?
This is a thumb muscle innervated by the ulnar nerve.
What is adductor pollicis muscle?
Mechanism of injury: FOOSH, followed by pain and instability in wrist. The condition is:
What is a carpal dislocation or fracture?
This test should be used in a client displaying a visual step deformity.
What is the A/C shear test? (Cross body abduction also acceptable)
This test assesses for plantar fasciitis.
What is the windlass test?