Foot Odd

Question 1

Dorsal or Plantar Glide ART at MTP and PIP Joints

Answer 1

Patient Seat/supine
Hold joint with cephalad hand and isolate opposite with my fingers moving between motions and alterate b/w restrictive barrier and ease of motion

Question 2

Dorsal or Plantar Glide ART at Cunieform/

Metatarsal Jt.

Answer 2

Patient Seat/supine
Isolate joint b/w fingers with thumbs on dorsum of foot moving between motions and alterate b/w restrictive barrier and ease of motion

Question 3

Everted Cuboid with plantar Glide
Inverted Navicular Plantar Glide
Cunieform Plantar Glide
MET

Answer 3

Patient Seat/supine

Grasp foot on Plantar aspect with thumbs crossed on bottom, lifting foot off the table dorsiflex with inversion

Question 4

Talus Eversion with anteromedial Glide

Answer 4

Patient seated feet off of table
Grasp caudad hand on back of calcaneus and grasp talus and dorum with cephalad hand and maintain inversion and eversion as you make a figure 8 with their foot

Question 5

Dorsiflexed Talus MET

Answer 5

P: Supine
Cephalad hand with ankle and Lateral Malleolar and other over dorsum of the foot
Bring into Plantarflexion RB and have them dorsiflex

Question 6

Plantar Flexed MET

Answer 6

P: Supine
Cephalad hand with ankle and Lateral Malleolar and other over plantar of the foot
Bring into Dosiflexion RB and have them plantarflex

Question 7

Distal Fibular Posterior ART

Answer 7

P: Prone
Stabilize foot by wraping hands around calcaneous and engage plantar flexed RB
Thumb of lateral hand posterior aspect of distal fibula w/ other thumb on top engage

Question 8

Distal Fibular Anterior ART

Answer 8

P: Supine
Stabilize foot by placing medial hand on anterior aspect of the tibia
Thumb of lateral hand posterior aspect of distal fibula w/ other thumb on top engage push it anteriorly