After an assessment, the nurse finds that a patient has fair muscle strength and the muscles are at 50% normal condition. what was the nurse’s finding?

Muscle testing is an important procedure to assess the function and strength of the individual muscles and group of muscles.

Manual muscle testing is a procedure where the function and strength of the muscles are studied based on the performance and movement under manual resistance and gravitational forces.

When a patient is tested to have “fair muscle strength and the muscles are at 50% normal condition”, it means that “there is Full range of motion with gravity”. It indicates that the muscle is capable of holding test position against gravity.