Restricted Range of Motion
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
4.9 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Suzzane is being evaluated for persistent neck pain and limited cervical range of motion on the right. The patient reports that the pain began two days ago after sleeping awkwardly. Upon examination, the patient's pain is only provoked when the patient attempts to look over the right shoulder. During joint mobility testing of the cervical spine, which of the following arthrokinematic glides is the MOST likely to be impaired?
A. Upglide of one or more facets on the right
B. Downglide of one more facets on the left
C. Downglide of one or more facets on the right
D. Upglide of one or more facets on the left
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:16.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn, and you'll see the life |
| 0:22.4 | I have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to |
| 0:27.8 | change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
| 0:34.3 | actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions. |
| 0:40.5 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
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| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:56.0 | For this week's clinical file, |
| 1:02.0 | we have Suzanne, and Suzanne is being evaluated for persistent neck pain and limited cervical range of motion on the right. The patient reports that the pain began two days ago after sleeping |
| 1:09.2 | awkwardly. Upon examination, the patient's pain is only provoked when the patient attempts to look |
| 1:16.1 | over the right shoulder. |
| 1:18.4 | During joint mobility testing of the cervical spine, which of the following arthurokinomatic |
| 1:24.0 | glides is the most likely to be impaired. So we have a upglide of one or more |
| 1:31.3 | facets on the right, B, downglide of one or more facets on the left, C, downglide of one or more |
| 1:40.9 | facets on the right, and D is upglide of one or more facets on the right and d is upglide of one or more facets on the left all right |
| 1:48.1 | let's go up to the top of this question there's a lot of information here a lot of things to really |
| 1:54.5 | pay attention to and then as you can see with the answer choices even those are quite a bit you |
| 2:00.3 | got some opposites you got some answer choices, even those are quite a bit. You got some opposites. You got some |
| 2:02.3 | answer choices that kind of sound similar. So we really want to take this type of question slowly. |
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