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Muscle Test for Soleus

 

Individual Position: The individual is lying prone with their knee flexed to 90 degrees and their foot slightly plantar flexed.

Practitioner Position:The practitioner applies simultaneous pressure superiorly to the heel and inferiorly against the ball of the foot.

Description of Muscle Test:The individual attempts to plantar flex their foot against the practitioner’s resistance.

 

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