Posts in Physical Therapy

Your patient rubs the outside of their shoulder and says the ache has been there...

A patient tells you their hand feels clumsy. Grip strength looks fine, the arm m...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects around 1.3 million adults in the United States...

The pinch grip test targets the anterior interosseous nerve (AIN), a motor branc...

Nerve compression rarely announces itself. A patient mentions pins and needles a...

Low back pain affects an estimated 619 million people globally. Physical therapi...

Most ankle sprains involve the lateral ligaments, so medial injuries get far les...

The Yocum test is one of the fastest ways to load the subacromial space and hear...

Front-of-hip tightness is easy to feel and hard to pin down. You stretch, it eas...

Six weeks after an ankle sprain, the patient is still limping. The X-ray came ba...

The Coleman block test is one of orthopedics’ most practical bedside tools...

Lift a patient’s pain-free leg, and the sciatica fires down the other side...