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NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy

Leg Length Discrepancy

NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy

Kyle Rice

Health & Fitness

4.9631 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Kevin assesses a patient’s functional leg length difference and discovers that the right lower extremity is longer. Which of the following joint actions would LEAST likely be present due to this discrepancy?  

A. Right foot in supination 

B. Right sacroiliac joint in posterior rotation 

C. Left sacroiliac joint in posterior rotation 

D. Right knee in extension

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0:23.4

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

0:31.9

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

0:39.2

Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons

0:43.9

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0:49.2

and a dream job that allows me to change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast

0:56.2

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1:02.8

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1:08.7

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MPTE and start creating a life you love, you're in the right place. Enjoy the show.

1:18.2

For this week's clinical file, we have Kevin, and Kevin assesses a patient's functional leg length

1:23.0

difference and discovers that the right lower extremity is longer. Which of the following joint actions would least likely be present due to this discrepancy?

1:33.4

All right.

1:33.9

So we have A, right foot in supination.

1:36.7

B, right sacro-iliac joint and posterior rotation.

1:40.8

C, right hip extension and external rotation.

1:48.2

And D is right knee in extension. All right.

1:55.2

Let's go up to the top of this question. As you can see, this one gets down in deep into, you know,

2:18.4

all of these things related to sacral iliac join and hip positions and all of that stuff. So we really need to break this one down nice and slow because it's easy to get down to the right answer or wrong answer, I should say, because you're confused. All right? So we're going to take this one nice and slow. For those of you have the opportunity, take some notes here, write some of this stuff down. Cool. All right. we go up to the top of this one. It says Kevin assesses a patient's functional leg length deference and discovers that the

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