Manual Muscle Testing: Grade Value Description
Manual Muscle Testing: Grade Value Description
Manual Muscle Testing: Grade Value Description
Good
3+
Fair Plus
3
2+
Fair
Poor plus
Poor
2-
Poor minus
Trace
Zero
Description
Full ROM against
gravity, maximal
resistance
Full ROM against
gravity, moderate
resistance
Full ROM against
gravity, slight
resistance
Full ROM against gravity
Atleast 50% ROM
against gravity, slight
resistance
Full ROM, gravity
eliminated
Atleast 50% ROM,
gravity eliminated
Visible or palpable
contraction
No muscle Contraction
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Upper Extremity
Scapular Abduction and Upward and
Rotation
(Serratus Anterior)
MMT for grades 5, 4 and 3
Patient position:
Patient should be in supine with
shoulder flexed to 90 degrees. The
shoulder should be raised off the table.
Therapist and patient Instructions:
Therapist stands over the patient,
resistance is given over the hand in a
downward direction. The stabilizing hand
is placed around the wrist.
MMT for grade 2, 1 and 0
Patient Position:
Patient sitting with entire arm in
same postion as above except now the
arm is resting on the table and the scapula
is not abducted.
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Scapular Elevation
(Trapezius (upper fibers)
MMT for grade 5, 4 and 3
Patient Position:
Patient is sitting with back facing
the therapist.
Therapist and Patient Instructions:
Therapist should be standing
behind the patient with hands placed over
the acromial ends of the clavicle and
scapula. The resistance is then placed in a
downward direction. PTs ask the patient
to shrug your shoulders and hold it.
Dont let me push them down. The
therapist attempts to push the patients
shoulder down.
MMT for grade 2, 1 and 0
Patient position:
Patient will be in prone position
on the table with arms at sides.
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Lower Extremity
Hip Flexion
(Psoas major and Iliacus)
MMT for grades 5, 4 and 3
Patient position:
Sitting, the thighs should be
supported on the table and the legs
hanging off the edge. The patient should
have his/her knee raised off the table.
Hands can be at sides or holding onto the
edge of the table for balance
Therapist and Patient Instructions:
The therapist should be next to
the limb being tested the resistance hand
is placed over the thigh just proximal to
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
GENERAL CONCEPTS
MMT............................
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UPPER
EXTREMITY
....2
Scapular Abduction and Upward and
Rotation.2
Scapular
Elevation
.3
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LOWER
EXTREMITY
..19
Hip
Flexion
..19
Hip flexion, Abduction and External
Rotation with
knee
position.
...20
Hip
Extension.
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Hip
Abduction
...22
Hip Abducted from flexed
position
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