Your client is a 32-year-old male with lower extremity paraplegia resulting from a trauma 20 years ago. What do you expect to see upon examination of his lower extremities?
1. contractures
2. flaccid musculature
3. spastic musculature
4. muscle fatigue
ANS: 2
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