Checklist
Wash hands, introduce yourself, consent patient.
HIP
- LOOK
- Gait
- Valgus/Varus and pes planus
- Muscle bulk
- Movement aids required
- Scars
- FEEL
- Temperature
- Muscle bulk – quadriceps, gluteal muscles
- Tenderness over bony prominences (GT)
- MOVE
- Measure ROM of active, then passive movement
- Flexion/Extension (-20 to 120 degrees)
- Abduction (40 degrees)
- IR/ER (Ankle away from midline/Ankle towards midline) (20/30 degrees)
- Power
- Flexion/Extension
- Abduction/Adduction
- Measure ROM of active, then passive movement
- SPECIAL
- Apparent and true leg lengths
Omissions/Notes