Exam 20: The Hip

Your patient had a total hip replacement 3 days ago and will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.Your home instructions should include, but are not limited to, each of the following except:

Which of the following signs and symptoms in the hip region and/or lower extremity is most consistent with the finding associated with trochanteric bursitis?

When applying mobilization with movement techniques at the hip with the patient lying on a table in the supine position, the primary purpose of the mobilization belt is to:

Each of the following principles is important when designing a therapeutic exercise program to correct hip muscle length/strength imbalances except:

Recent advances in arthroscopy of the hip now allow all of the following procedures to be performed using this less invasive technique except:

You are initiating postoperative treatment for a 78-year-old woman who sustained an intertrochanteric fracture of the proximal femur 3 days ago and immediately underwent open reduction with internal fixation (screw-plate fixation).She has been referred to physical therapy for postoperative exercise and gait/functional training (initially with minimal weight bearing on the operated side).A decision has not yet been made about whether this patient will be discharged directly to home where she lives with her husband or to a subacute skilled nursing facility.Prior to discharge from the hospital during the next few days, which of the following is the lowest priority intervention?

Which of the following is a correct statement about arthrodesis of the hip?

The term hybrid total hip arthroplasty refers to a(n):

The clinical prediction rule for the diagnosis of osteoarthritis of the hip developed by Sutlive and colleagues includes consideration of all of the following variables except:

Which of the following exercises, designed to self-stretch the hamstrings, is the safest and utilizes the most effective stabilization?

In an elderly patient, which of the following types of hip fracture is managed most often with hemireplacement of the hip (hemiarthroplasty)?

Hip flexor structural or functional impairment will result in a change in the normal gait cycle.The therapist should suspect hip flexor dysfunction when observing gait and noting a:

Which of the following surgical approaches for conventional total hip arthroplasty is associated with the highest risk of postoperative hip dislocation if the hip flexes (passively or actively) beyond 80° to 90° during the early postoperative weeks?

If a patient stands in a fencer's posture but with the back leg externally rotated and then lunges forward, this self-stretching maneuver primarily stretches which muscle groups of the back leg?

A patient who underwent a right cemented total hip arthroplasty through a posterolateral conventional incision 3 to 4 weeks ago is permitted to do each of the following except:

Osteoarthritis of the hip is typically characterized by a progressive decrease in range of motion (ROM) of the following movement combinations: