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My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT Prep Coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the

NPT PEPT Success Coaching Program.

And this week's MPT Clinical File is about our patient name Hattie, and Hattie presents for

a physical screening prior to trying out for gymnastics.

While performing trunk flexion and standing, the child is found to have thoracic spinous

processes that are deviated to the left and a significant rib hump on the right. Which of the

following is the most likely cause of the observed abnormality? So we have A, right thoracic

scoliosis, B, Sherman's chyphosis, C, angelosing spondylitis, and D, left thoracic

scoliosis.

All right, so when we start this question, we have Hattie.

She presents for a physical screening prior to trying out for gymnastics.

Now, this first sentence doesn't really tell us a lot, but it does set the stage because we have a female.

She's presenting for this physical screening, all right, prior to gymnastics.

Obviously, why we do that is to prevent the patient from having, or at least reduce the risk

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