BOC AT Practice Test 9

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Therapeutic Intervention

Testlet: Lateral ankle sprain rehabilitation

Setting: university women's soccer. Patient: 20 years old, midfielder. Mechanism: inversion with plantarflexion during a tackle 16 days ago. Physician impression: Grade II lateral ankle sprain (anterior talofibular ligament). Patient now in the athletic training facility for rehabilitation.

Current signs and symptoms:

- Full weight bearing, no assistive device

- Mild residual effusion anterior to the lateral malleolus

- 0-8 degrees of ankle dorsiflexion (uninvolved: 0-18 degrees)

- Firm, capsular end feel at end of dorsiflexion

- Pain 2 on a 10-point scale with stairs

- Peroneal (fibularis) MMT 4/5 (Good)

- Single-limb stance, eyes open: 12 seconds (uninvolved: 30 seconds)

Which joint mobilization is most appropriate to address the patient's ROM deficit?

Choose only one.