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Your Patient Has Only 50 \circ of Passive and Active Knee Flexion (But Full Passive

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Your patient has only 50 \circ of passive and active knee flexion (but full passive extension) 2 weeks after removal of a cast for a fracture of the tibia.The bone is now radiologically healed.Each of the following techniques will be of value to increase the range of knee flexion except:


A) The hold-relax technique,with isometric contraction of the hamstrings with the knee at 45 \circ ,followed by relaxation,then passive movement into more flexion.
B) Low-load,long-duration self-stretching of the quadriceps.
C) Posterior glide of the tibia.
D) Caudal glide of the patella.

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