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 Janie, and Janie is performing a postural assessment on a patient who has a medical diagnosis of Lombago. When assessing lower extremity alignment, the plum line should fall. And so we have A, anteriorly to the lumbar spine, B, posteriorly to the hip, C, through the hip joint line, and D is posteriorly to the knee.

All right.

So let's knock this one down.

Starting off at the top.

We know that we're dealing with a bit of postureal assessment on this one.

So hold on.

Before we knock down this question, this is one of those types of questions that can sometimes be a little on the annoying side because you know you've seen it before, you know you've kind of gone through this stuff

before, whether it was in your patient care skills class, whatever they called it, right?

So it's stuff that we've seen before, but you might not have seen it in a while, so it shows

up on the NPTE and you're like, ah, dang, this. Okay,

so that's the reason why I made this into a question. So let's break it down. Janie is performing

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