Chapter 6 The Muscular System 91 Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. May not be reproduced or posted to a publicly accessible website. Name ________________________________________________________________ Conclusions Reflect on the four manual muscles tests performed and answer the following questions. 1. Which test was the easiest to perform? Why? _ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which was the hardest? Why? _ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Was there a difference between the left and right sides? If you noticed a difference, why do you think this occurred? _ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Based on your understanding of muscle contraction and manual muscles tests, why might clinicians attempt to measure isometric muscle strength? _ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ With your understanding of muscle contraction and how to conduct basic manual muscle tests, brainstorm how you might test the following actions. Be sure to describe the ideal patient position, your actions as a clinician, any verbal cues you might provide to the patient, which muscle is being tested, and the antagonist muscle(s). 5. Neck flexion Patient position: _ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Clinician actions: _ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Verbal cue: _ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Agonist muscle(s): _ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Antagonist muscle(s): _ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________