FROM MY PT SCHOOL NOTES · UNIT 4 OF 5
Hip & Knee
Learn to connect hip and knee anatomy, patient presentation and meaningful lower-extremity tasks to physical therapy examination and rehabilitation reasoning. These lessons are drawn from my PT-school lectures; newer clinical recommendations are identified separately.
Six chapters
- 14 — Hip examination and referral
- 15 — Hip exercise and functional progression
- 16 — Knee examination and patellofemoral pain
- 17 — ACL rehabilitation
- 18 — Meniscus and cartilage procedures
- 19 — Knee osteoarthritis
What to look for
Each lesson asks which system may explain the symptoms, how the task is limited, what risks change urgency, and how to choose and retest a safe, appropriate rehabilitation progression. The companion PDF develops the source lectures in greater depth.
These notes are an educational companion, not a standardized rehabilitation protocol or exam guarantee. Use the treating team’s actual surgical instructions when applicable.
