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Clinical Skills Lab

Manual Muscle Testing (MMT)

Grade strength from 0 to 5 like an expert: positions, stabilisation, resistance, gravity-minimised testing and substitutions for 46 muscle tests.Roman Urdu: Muscle ki taaqat 0 se 5 tak grade karna — sahi position, stabilisation, resistance aur substitutions ke saath.
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Opening Manual Muscle Testing (MMT)…

Everything in this skill (46 items) and sources
  • Cervical flexion
  • Cervical extension
  • Trunk flexion
  • Trunk rotation
  • Trunk extension
  • Pelvic elevation
  • Scapular abduction & upward rotation
  • Scapular elevation
  • Scapular adduction (retraction)
  • Scapular depression & adduction
  • Scapular adduction & downward rotation
  • Shoulder flexion
  • Shoulder extension
  • Shoulder abduction
  • Shoulder horizontal abduction
  • Shoulder horizontal adduction
  • Shoulder external rotation
  • Shoulder internal rotation
  • Elbow flexion
  • Elbow extension
  • Forearm supination
  • Forearm pronation
  • Wrist flexion
  • Wrist extension
  • Finger MCP flexion with IP extension
  • Finger PIP flexion
  • Finger DIP flexion
  • Finger MCP extension
  • Finger abduction
  • Finger adduction
  • Thumb palmar abduction
  • Thumb opposition
  • Thumb adduction
  • Hip flexion
  • Hip extension
  • Hip abduction
  • Hip adduction
  • Hip external rotation
  • Hip internal rotation
  • Knee flexion
  • Knee extension
  • Ankle plantarflexion
  • Ankle dorsiflexion & inversion
  • Foot inversion
  • Foot eversion
  • Great toe extension

Sources

  • Avers & Brown — Daniels and Worthingham's Muscle Testing (10th ed.)
  • Kendall et al. — Muscles: Testing and Function with Posture and Pain (5th ed.)
  • ASIA — International Standards for Neurological Classification of SCI (ISNCSCI)