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 Kofi, and Kofi is a physical therapist treating a patient with an acute

rotator cuffed hair, which of the following interventions is most appropriate for improving

the range of motion in this patient. So we have A, eccentric strengthening exercises,

B, passive range of motion exercises. C, isometric strengthening exercises. And D is active range of motion

exercises. All right. Let's go out to the top of this one. I'm super excited. I love

intervention-based questions. You really have to figure out what is the major problem. What's

the pathology? What's the primary impairment? And then what's the safest but most effective

intervention to address that primary impairment? That's my system for figuring out the right answer every single time.

All right.

So I just gave you the keys to the city.

Let's go ahead and knock down this question right here.

Kofi's is a physical therapist treating a patient with an acute rotator cuff tear.

Definitely have to know this for the MPTE, this pathology.

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