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NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy

Shoulder Special Testing

NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy

Kyle Rice

Health & Fitness

4.9631 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Beniah is a 16-year-old baseball pitcher with persistent right shoulder pain. 

The physical therapist is challenged with determining which special test will confirm the presence of the suspected condition. 

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0:00.0

You are now tuning in to the MPTE clinical files to 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

0:12.2

prep coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching Program.

0:18.4

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 Benaya. And Benaya is a

0:33.7

16-year-old baseball pitcher with a recent onset of persistent right shoulder pain.

0:39.8

The evaluating therapist suspects a slap tear with a small tear of the superior labrum

0:46.8

and instability of the biceps labrum complex.

0:51.4

Which of the following test is the most likely to be performed to confirm the presence

0:56.9

of the suspected condition? So we have A, active compression test of O'Brien, B, Nears test, C, Kim

1:06.6

test, and D is the apprehension test. All right, so let's go to work benaya 16 year old baseball pitcher

1:18.0

with a recent onset of persistent right shoulder pain now the one thing that we know is that

1:24.9

there's quite a few different structures in the shoulder that can be potentially

1:28.1

causing pain, especially for a baseball pitcher, right?

1:31.3

So obviously we have joint related issues.

1:34.2

It could be the actual bone.

1:35.8

It could be muscle or tendon, you know, super spinaidus, that sort of deal.

1:40.1

You could be a labral issue.

1:42.5

All right.

1:42.7

It could be some type of ligament issue.

1:45.1

So there's a lot of different things that can potentially be cause in pain here.

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