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MMT Lower Limb Flashcards

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Hip extension

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Position: prone

Instruction: lift your leg off the table as high as you can without bending your knee

GM: sidelying

Trace/0: prone

Instruction: squeeze your buttocks together

Resistance: can be given on distal tibia or distal femur

Stabilization: pelvis

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Hip adduction

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Position: sidelying. Top limb supported by therapist.

Instruction: lift your bottom leg up to your top one. Hold it. Don’t let me push it down.

Gravity minimized: supine

Trace/0: supine

Instruction: try to bring your leg in

Resistance: distal femur, medial aspect

Stabilization: Pelvis

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Hip extension with knee flexion gluteus maximus biased

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Position: prone. Knee flexed to 90°

Instruction: lift your leg keeping your knee bent

Gravity minimized: side lying

Trace/0: prone

Instruction squeeze your butt together

Resistance; distal femur

Stabilization: pelvis

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Hip external rotation

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Position: sitting

Instruction don’t let me turn your leg out

Gravity minimized: supine. Limb straight

Instruction: roll your leg out.

Trace/0: supine

Resistance: medial distal tibia

Stabilization: lateral distal femur

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Hip internal rotation

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Position: sitting

Instruction: don’t let me turn your leg in

Gravity minimized: supine. Knee straight

Instruction: “Roll your leg in toward the other one

Trace/0: supine

Instruction: try to roll your leg in

Resistance: lateral distal tibia

Stabilization: medial distal femur

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Hip abduction

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Position: side-lying. Slight hip extension and pelvis rotated forward

Instruction: lift your leg up in the air. Hold it. Don’t let me push it down.

Gravity minimized: supine

Trace/0: supine

Resistance: distal tibia, lateral aspect. Or distal femur lateral aspect

Stabilization: pelvis

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Hip flexion

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Position: sitting

Instruction: lift your leg off the table and don’t let me push it down

GM: sideline

Trace/0: supine

Resistance; distal femur

Stabilization; posterior trunk

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Hip extension supine

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Position: supine with heels off table

Instruction: don’t let me lift your leg from the table. Keep your hip locked tight and your whole body rigid as a board

Gravity minimized: NA; grade 2 is supine. There is no grade 1 or zero with a supine test.

Resistance: therapist hands cupped under heel

Stabilization: bodyweight

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Grading system for a hip extension supine

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5/5: pelvis & back elevated as one unit as heel lifted approximately 24 inches off table

4/5: hip flexes less than or equal to 30° before hip and back elevate

3/5: strong resistance to elevation of limb to 24 inches off table without elevation of pelvis

2/5: minimal resistance (more than weight of limb) to 24 inches off table

No grade 1 or zero

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Knee extension

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Position: sitting

Instruction: straighten your knee. Hold it. Don’t let me bend it.

Gravity minimized: sidelying; hip neutral, knee 90° flexion

Trace/0: supine

Instruction: push the back of your knee into table

Resistance: distal anterior tibia

Stabilization: distal femur

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Knee flexion

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Position: prone with knee flexed to 90°

Instruction: bend your knee. Hold it. Don’t let me straighten it.

Gravity minimize: sidelining

Trace/0: prone

Resistance: distal posterior tibia

Stabilization: distal femur

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Ankle dorsiflexion with inversion

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Position: sitting

Instruction: bring your foot up and in. Hold it. Don’t let me push it down.

Gravity minimized: same position and instruction, partial range of motion for grade 2 (poor)

Trace/0: same position and instruction

Resistance: dorsal medial foot

Stabilization: proximal to ankle

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Subtalar inversion

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Position: sitting ankle in-slight Plantarflexion

Instruction: turn your foot down and in. Hold it.

Gravity minimized: same position and instruction, partial ROM for grade 2 (poor)

Trace/0: same position and instruction

Resistance: medial/dorsum foot at metatarsals heads level

Stabilization: proximal to ankle, lateral aspect

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Ankle plantar flexion grading

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5/5: standing 25 reps

4/5: standing 10 to 24 reps

3/5: standing 1 to 9 reps

2+/5: standing clears heel only

2+/5: prone max resistance

2/5: prone no resistance

2-/5: prone partial range

1/5: contraction palpated

0/5: no contraction palpated

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Ankle plantar flexion

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Position: stand

Instruction: stand on your right leg. Go up on your tiptoes. Now down. Repeat 25 times all the way up and all the way down without stopping.

Nonweightbearing: prone

Traits/0: prone

Instruction: point your toes down like a toe or ballet dancer

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Grade 2, 1, & 0 trunk extension position, instruction and how to grade

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Position: prone on table arms at side

Instruction: raise your head, shoulders, and chest from the table as high as you can

Grade 2: partial range

Grade 1: trace contraction in thoracic or lumbar extensors

Great 0: zer0 contractile activity

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Trunk extension

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Position: prone

Resistance: changes with arm position

Stabilization: therapist uses bodyweight at patients ankles or hips

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Trunk flexion grading

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Grade 5: no assist, hand behind head, clear inferior angles

Grade 4: no assist, hands crossed over chest, clear inferior angles

Grade 3: no assist, hand straight forward, clear inferior angles

Grade 2: raise head and upper trunk, scapula do not clear table, And palpate abdominals contract

  • Assisted and active forward lean with rib cage depression
  • Cough in assisted forward lean with rib cage depression

Grade 1: cough or perform an assisted forward lean without rib cage depression, but palpable contraction
-Unable cough but palpate rectus contraction

Grade 0: zero detectable activity

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Trunk rotation (internal and extternal oblique

Position, action, instructions for grade 5-3.

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Position: supine with legs straight; for trace hips flexed feet flat

Resistance: changes with arm position

Stabilization: bodyweight

Action: curl up performed movements bilaterally

Instructions grade 5/4/3: lift your head and shoulders from the table, taking your right elbow toward your left knee. Then that lift your head and shoulders from the table, taking your left elbow toward your right knee

Criteria G5: with hands clasped behind head must clear scapula on side being rotated away from

Criteria G4: with arms crossed must clear scapula on side being rotated away from

Criteria G3: with arms outstretched across plan of body can raise scapula off table

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Grade 3 trunk extension position, instruction, and grade

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Position: prone off the table tunable line arms outside

Instruction: raise your head shoulders and chest from the table as high as you can

Grade 3 lumbar/thoracic raises up with arms at side

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Trunk flexion

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Position: supine

Resistance: changes with arm position

Stabilization: if hip weakness stabilize pelvis

Instruction: tuck your chin and bring your head, shoulders, and arms off the table curling up into a sit up

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Thoracic Trunk extension position, instruction, grades 4 and 5.

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Position: thoracic off table to nipple line with hands clasped behind head.

Instruction: raise head, shoulders, and chest to table level

Grade 5: thoracic raises to horizontal+ with ease

Grade 4: thoracic raises to horizontal with difficulty

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Trunk rotation instructions and grading criteria for grades 2-0

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Instruction grade 2: Lift your head and reach toward your knee

Criteria G2: arm straight unable to clear inferior angle; depression of rib cage must occur

Instruction grade 1: therapist assists by supporting patients head to decrease weight that abdominals must lift.
Say Try to lift up and turn your right then left

Criteria G1: see or palpate contraction

Criteria G0: no response

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Lumbar trunk extension position, instructions, and grades five and four.

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Patient position: Lumbar on table with hands clasped behind head

instruction: raise your head, shoulders, and chest off the table. Come up as high as you can

Grade 5: lumbar raises up clears up umbilicus and locks without effort or lag

Grade 4: lumbar raises up clears umbilicus but with effort and wavering

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