Isokinetic Testing
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Jenuine is seven months status post right ACL reconstruction with a desire to return to full-speed running. The physical therapist is challenged with determining the MOST accurate rationale for the use of isokinetic strength testing.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now tuning in to the MPTE clinical files to mock MPTE-based questions told and solved |
| 0:07.0 | week by week. Thank you for tuning in to the MPT clinical files. My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT |
| 0:12.2 | prep coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching Program. |
| 0:18.4 | And if you would like a free cheat sheet that goes along with this specific |
| 0:22.4 | question, tune in to the end of this episode. And I'm going to give you more information on how to |
| 0:27.7 | get that. All right. So for our next MPT clinical file, we have our patient. Genuine. And |
| 0:32.8 | genuine is seven months status posts, write ACL reconstruction with a desire to return to full speed running. |
| 0:42.2 | The patient appears to have good knee extensor strength during a routine manual muscle test. |
| 0:50.7 | The most accurate rationale for isokinetic testing is. |
| 0:56.5 | So we have A, a valid measure for comparing the quadriceps cross-sectional area between the injured and non-injured leg. |
| 1:08.0 | B, the ability to measure quadriceps force production at patient selected speeds. |
| 1:15.0 | C. The ability to measure quadriceps and hamstring force production at a velocity greater than |
| 1:23.6 | 60 degrees per second. And D. the ability to measure external force production at a constant angular |
| 1:33.6 | velocity all right so there you go those answer choices have a lot a lot in them and so we'll make |
| 1:41.3 | sure we go back over it for those of you who are in the gym or in the car. But let's go up to the top of this one. So we have Genuine is seven months |
| 1:51.0 | status post right ACL reconstruction. I'll go ahead and stop there for a moment. So we have |
| 1:57.9 | this patient and the ACL reconstruction is one of the most common surgeries |
| 2:05.1 | to show up in your first six months of practice, especially if you're orthopedics. |
| 2:09.3 | So I expect this topic to show up on your MPTE. |
| 2:12.6 | Maybe it's once. |
| 2:13.8 | Maybe it's three times, four times. |
| 2:15.1 | I don't know 100% how many times it will, but I will |
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