Your patient presents 3 months after a fracture of the talus with severely restricted dorsiflexion. Considering the techniques that you have learnt in this course, what would be your assessment priorities on day one?
A patient presents with foot and ankle pain. Explain the procedure that you would use and the tests you could use to determine a specific articular cause of this pain.
When the patient came to clinic with fracture talus with severely restricted dorsiflexion need to be assessed as follow:-.
When assessing the ankle dorsiflexion range of motion both weight bearing and non weight bearing techniques are used.
Weight bearing lunge test(WBLT) is technique used to assess the ankle dorsiflexion ROM.
In this test patient is asked to stand near wall.
Knee and ankle of affected leg should to be touch wall.
Ask the patient to squant slightly.
One more technique is star excursion balance test
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