PT Volunteer 6/20/12

• Ar - different stride walks
• purpose
• patient has tendency to externally rotate femur (decreased quad contraction, uses hip adducters instead) and vault over leg (decreased knee flexion)
• retrain gait biomechanics - stride w/ increased knee flexion with hips in line
• Ek - high intensity low duration exercises
• * limitations of strength tests - variability? functional sports testing?
• Joint mobilization - ankle 
• biomechanics of ankle dorsiflexion - talus slides back and anterior rotates superiorly
• spine alignment exercises 
• lower trunk (lumbar spine) rotations (LTR) - supine, knees flexed at 90, lower body rotates left and right
• thoracic rotations (book openings) - supine, knees flexed at 90 laying on one side of floor, rotates upper body from hands together twisting the upper body and reaching the other side of the body. 
• FMS (Function movement screen) - whole body movement exercises that looks at big picture of a patient's function/rom/strength
• Florence Kendall 
• manual muscle tests 
• isolate 1 muscle
• id nerve problems, strains, specific
• not designed for what is commonly used for today
• tests motion not muscle strength