Functional Foot and Ankle Assessment

December 4, 2013
Functional Foot and Ankle Assessment Part 1

Assessing the body functioning naturally is an important component of Applied Functional Science as taught by the Gray Institute.

During my training with them we where taught to look at each client as a individual who’s functional needs will be unique to them.

With that in mind it is then easy to create some functional tests that will help uncover any functional deficits a patient may have.  Here I demonstrate an active foot and ankle exam that forms the bases for more individualized tests.

These functional tests will then be ‘cross referenced’ with more passive table based exams to help me formulate a treatment plan.

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