Benito, a patient with a right transfemoral amputation, demonstrates circumduction of the prosthetic limb during the swing phase. Which of the following prosthetic causes is MOST likely contributing to this deviation?

A) Insufficient socket flexion

B) Socket is excessively abducted

C) Knee friction is too low

D) Foot is set too posteriorly

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Victor is a 12-year-old male who presents with a limp and groin pain. The hip rests in external rotation, and hip flexion produces obligatory external rotation. Which of the following should the physical therapist initiate FIRST?

A) Begin hip strengthening and gait training

B) Stretch hip internal rotators and adductors

C) Make the patient non–weight bearing and refer urgently

D) Initiate aquatic therapy for pain-free ROM

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Belsnickel is a 63-year-old male who presents with right-sided facial paralysis, inability to abduct the right eye, and an absent corneal blink reflex on the right. Sensation to the face is intact. These findings are MOST consistent with a lesion affecting which of the following cranial nerves?

A) Cranial nerve V, VI

B) Cranial nerve VI

C) Cranial nerve VI, VII

D) Cranial nerve II, VI

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