Online Continuing Education Courses

Digits of the Lower Limb

• Summarize manual muscle strength testing: purposes; procedures; and grading.
• Describe origins, insertions, actions, athletic activities and common clinical conditions involved with ten muscles controlling the digits of the feet.
• Apply knowledge of anatomy to refine vectors of force and other procedures involved in performing manual strength tests for these muscles of the lower limb digits.
• Manually measure strength of ten muscles in the lower limb digits.
• Interpret the clinical and athletic significance of abnormal results with these manual strength tests of the lower limb digits.