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,

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For this week's clinical file, we have Jesse, and Jesse presents with complaints of right lateral knee pain. Upon

gate assessment, the patient has significant overpronation on the right. Which of the following

examination findings would best explain the observed overpronation. So we have A,

four foot valgus, B, femoral antivversion, C, genuverum, and D is hip flexor weakness. All right,

let's go up to the top of this question. This is a bit of a difficult one now. It goes into the musculoskeletal department and then biomechanics. This is an area that can be pretty difficult on the NPTE if we haven't beefed up your biomechanics. So let's take this one nice and slow because we got this, all right? It says, Jesse presents with complaints

of right lateral knee pain. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on that first sentence.

There's not a lot there. I don't want to start assuming or adding things. It just says right

lateral knee pain. Got it. Let's keep it moving. Upon gate assessment, the patient has significant overpronation on the right. Stop. I'm looking at this sentence and I'm like, okay, we have some very important words here. Overpronation of the foot. We know that that is rear foot valgus position. If you're unfamiliar with that,

definitely go check out your kinesiology textbook. This is a major one that you need to know.

So it's more in that rear foot valgus position. It's like the heel is pushed out laterally.

You'll see this a lot of times with people who have a flat foot, as they call it, are pest planus.

Okay.

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