Thomas Test
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
4.9 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Efe presents to physical therapy with hip pain. During a routine examination, the patient lacks hip extension, has a positive Thomas test, and has excessive anterior pelvic tilt. Which of the following tissues is the MOST likely shortened? A. Rectus femoris B. Iliopsoas C. Hamstrings D. Tensor Fascia Latae
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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 |
| 0:50.8 | you love, you're in the right place. |
| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:56.0 | For this week's clinical file, we have FAA, and FAA presents the physical therapy with hip pain. During a routine examination, |
| 1:03.4 | the patient lacks hip extension, has a positive Thomas test, and has excessive anterior |
| 1:10.4 | pelvic tilt. Which of the following tissues is the most likely |
| 1:14.6 | shortened? So we have A, rectus formoris, B, Iliosoas, C, hamstrings, Denser fascielata. |
| 1:24.4 | All right. Let's go into this one right here. Is this not a type of question that you've |
| 1:31.2 | seen before? This is a very common type of musculoskeletal question where they're going to give you |
| 1:37.4 | a bunch of different examination findings and you have to decipher, hey, what the heck is going on? |
| 1:48.2 | What's tight or what's weak or, you know, something along the lines of that. |
| 1:50.2 | So this is great practice here. |
| 1:51.8 | Let's go through this question together. |
| 1:55.6 | We have FAA presents to physical therapy with hip pain. |
| 1:57.4 | Don't look too far into that. |
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