While on a neurology rotation, the attending physician asks you to test a patient's femoral nerve function. Which of the following would you do?
A) Have the patient do a sit-up while you hold and resist his thigh.
B) Have the patient rotate his thigh medially while you resist this movement.
C) Have the patient extend his thigh against your resistance.
D) Have the patient extend his knee against your resistance.
E) Have the patient flex his knee against your resistance.
Ans: D
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