Manual Muscle Testing 206

Course overview

Summarize manual muscle strength testing: purposes; procedures; and grading. Describe origins, insertions, actions, athletic activities and common clinical conditions involved with ten muscles controlling the digits of the feet. Apply knowledge of anatomy to refine vectors of force and other procedures involved in performing manual strength tests for these muscles of the lower limb digits. Manually measure strength of ten muscles in the lower limb digits. Interpret the clinical and athletic significance of abnormal results with these manual strength tests of the lower limb digits.