Exam 1 Flashcards
What do you do if a patient is below an MMT grade 3 for Cervical Extension?
For a grade 3 leave them prone and the patient tries to hold the position without resistance.
Grade 2 and below the patient is supine and the therapist put their fingers in the back of the patients head and ask to push into the hands. If they move through small range (grade 2). If they don’t move but you can feel the muscles contracting (grade 1) If they don’t move and you don’t feel muscle contracture (grade 0)
What do you do if a patient is below an MMT grade 3 for Upper Trapezius?
Patient is placed in a prone position, one hand supports shoulder, the other palpates upper trap.
Grade 2: Patient completes full ROM in gravity minimized position
Grade 1: Upper trap fibers can be palpated at clavicle or neck
Grade 0: There is no contracture
What do you do if a patient is below an MMT grade 3 for Middle Trapezius?
Patient REMAINS in the same position and the Therapist cradles arm while the other hand palpates muscle.
Grade 2: Completes ROM without the weight of the arm.
Grade 1: Muscle contracts with slight movement
Grade 0: No motion or contraction
What do you do if a patient is below an MMT grade 3 for Lower Trapezius?
Patient REMAINS in the same position and the Therapist supports patients arm under the elbow
Grade 2: Completes full scap. ROM without weight of arm.
Grade 1: Can feel contraction
Grade 0: No contraction or motion
What do you do if a patient is below an MMT grade 3 for Rhomboids (Scap. Adduction, retraction)?
Place patient in a sitting position with the arm behind the back (Like Gerber lift offs), one hand supports the wrist while the other palpates the muscle.
Grade 2: Completes range of scap. motion
Grade 1: Muscle contracts
Grade 0: No movement or contraction
What do you do if a patient is below an MMT grade 3 for Serratus Anterior?
Supports the patient at the arm, while the other hand is palpating the serratus anterior.
Grade 2: The patient actively goes through the motion, if it is not smooth abduction and upward rotation its SA weakness.
Grade 1: Patient holds arm in elevated position. There is muscle contraction.
Grade 0: Patient holds arm in elevated position. There is no muscle contraction.
What is the normative range for shoulder flexion?
0-180
What is the normative range for shoulder extension?
0-60
What is the normative range for shoulder abduction?
0-180
What is the normative range for medial rotation?
0-70
What is the normative range for lateral rotation?
0-90
What is the normative range for cervical flexion?
40
What is the normative range for cervical extension?
50
What is the normative range for cervical lateral flexion?
22
What is the normative range for cervical rotation?
70
When the opposing muscle is stretched to a point where it can no longer lengthen and allow further movement, what type of insufficiency?
Passive insufficiency
Occurs when the muscle produces simultaneous movement at all the joints it crosses and reaches such a shortened position that it no longer has the ability to develop effective tension, is what type of insufficiency?
Active insufficiency
What do you do if a patient is below a MMT grade 3 for shoulder flexion?
Put the patient sidelying and cradle test arm with one hand and with the other palpate the anterior surfaces of the deltoid.
Grade 2: Completes full ROM in gravity minimized position.
Grade 1: Feel or see contraction, no motion
Grade 0: No contraction or movement
What do you do if a patient is below an MMT grade 3 for shoulder extension?
Grade 2: Patient completes partial ROM
Patient stays in prone position, palpate posterior shoulder and deltoid.
Grade 1: Feel contraction, no movement
Grade 0: No contraction and no movement
What do you do if a patient is below an MMT grade 3 for shoulder abduction?
Lay the patient supine and place hand on middle deltoid.
Grade 2: Completes ROM in this position.
If they cannot complete, slightly flex the elbow and continue to palpate posterior shoulder.
Grade 1: Contraction with no movement
Grade 0: No contraction or movement
How do you grade a patient that can hold the test position against maximal resistance?
5
How do you grade a patient that can hold a test position against moderate to strong pressure?
4+