Right Knee Injury
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 6 February 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Samuel is a basketball star who injured his right knee after he pivoted on his right foot. The patient reports pain immediately afterward and has been complaining of additional symptoms since the incident.
The physical therapist is challenged with differentially diagnosing the patient's right knee pain.
How well do you know your knee injuries? Can you differentially diagnose this common type of injury? Let's test your ability in this excellent episode about knee injuries.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now tuning in to the MPTE Clinical Files, two 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 |
| 0:12.3 | PrEPP Coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching |
| 0:17.3 | Program. 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 Samuel. And Samuel was |
| 0:33.4 | injured two days ago during a basketball game when he pivoted on his right foot. The patient |
| 0:39.5 | reports feeling right medial knee pain immediately afterward and complains of intermittent |
| 0:44.7 | clicking with an occasional catch at end range. A painless one millimeter joint space gaping |
| 0:52.0 | is observed during the Valgus stress test, which are the following |
| 0:55.8 | conditions is the most likely present? All right. So we have A, grade 3 ACL tear. B is the medial |
| 1:03.6 | menisical tear. C is the petalular subluxation. And D is grade three medial collateral ligamentary. |
| 1:13.6 | All right. |
| 1:14.0 | So we got to go in. |
| 1:15.5 | We got to destroy this. |
| 1:17.3 | So let's take a look first. |
| 1:19.3 | We got Samuel was injured two days ago during a basketball game when he pivoted on this right |
| 1:25.6 | foot. |
| 1:26.2 | Now already, that should start to tell you a little something, something right there, okay? |
| 1:30.3 | Because there's this thing called a mechanism of injury, something that we're very familiar with when it comes down to the knee. |
| 1:37.8 | You know, pivoting on the foot and keeping that foot like planted into the ground, it sets us up for a few different |
| 1:45.4 | things. Sets us up for the ACL tear. Sets us up for a medial collateral ligament tear. |
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