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 Chauncey and Chauncey is an obese 56-year-old male with a history of smoking. The patient

presents with intense cramping in the right distal calf when ambulating greater than five minutes.

Which of the following findings is the least anticipated?

So we have A, ulceration on the dorsal side of the toes.

B, intense allodinia over regions of ulceration.

C, pain that improves with dependency.

And D is a 3 plus dorsal pedial pulse or petal pulse.

Let's go ahead up to the top of the question and knock down this one.

It's all about, you know, into that vascular area right now, we can tell, right?

So let's break this down. We got Chauncey is an obese, 56-year-old male with a history of smoking.

Now, smoking sets us up for a lot of different pathologies, but one in particular, actually, it's kind of hard to just say one because, I mean, it set you

up for things like coronary artery disease, right?

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