Topic 3: Muscle Length Testing

Plantar flexor's stretch is limited when the knee is extended due to...

• Passive Insufficiency

• Active Insufficiency

• Both

• Neither

Plantar flexor's strength is reduced when the knee is flexed due to...

• Active Insufficiency

• Passive Insufficiency

• Both

• Neither

When the knee is placed in extension and ankle in dorsiflexion, the Gastrocnemius reaches active insufficiency.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When the knee is placed in flexion and ankle in plantar flexion, the Gastrocnemius reaches passive insufficiency.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When the shoulder & elbow is placed in flexion, the Triceps Brachii reaches passive insufficiency.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When the shoulder is placed in flexion & elbow in extension, the __________

• Triceps Brachii reaches active insufficiency

• Biceps Brachii reaches active insufficiency

• Triceps Brachii reaches passive insufficiency

• Biceps Brachii reaches passive insufficiency

• None of the options

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When the shoulder & elbow is placed in flexion, the __________

• Triceps Brachii reaches active insufficiency

• Triceps Brachii reaches passive insufficiency

• Biceps Brachii reaches passive insufficiency

• None of the options

Wrist and finger flexors become actively insufficient when ________.

• wrist flexed and fingers extended

• wrist extended and fingers flexed

• both are fully extended

• both are fully flexed

Biceps brachii is passively insufficient when__________

• shoulder and elbow flexed

• shoulder flexed, elbow extended

• shoulder extended, elbow flexed

• shoulder and elbow extended

Active insufficiency of the biceps brachii can be avoided ___________.

• by extension of the elbow

• by flexion of the elbow

• by extension of the shoulder

• by flexion of the shoulder