I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide.

It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE.

Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn. And you'll see

the life I have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that

allows me to change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to

give you simple, actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions.

All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream.

So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life

you love, you're in the right place.

Enjoy the show.

For this week's clinical file, we have Carmelo, and Carmelo is performing a gate analysis and notices that the patient's

toes or forefoot are the first points of contact with the ground instead of the heel during

initial contact. Which of the following is the least likely to be a possible

cause of this gate deviation? So we have A, leg length discrepancy, B, reciprocal inhibition of

dorsiflexers, C, painful heel, and D is profound dorsiflexer weakness. All right, let's go

up to the top of this question, baby.

We're going to go ahead and knock this one out. You know I had to throw in another one of these

gate ones. You know, we've got to throw them in every once in a while. All right? Let's go ahead

and knock this one out. It says Carmelo is performing a gate analysis and notices that the patient's

toes or forefoot are the first points of contact with the ground

instead of the heel during initial contact. Let's go ahead and stop there for a moment. Let's think

back to our gate analysis and the gate cycle. We know that initial contact, that's the first

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