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Flexor hallucis longus:
• patient supine or sitting
• stabilises the 1st MPJ and maintains the ankle joint slightly plantarflexed
• test flexion of the 1st IPJ by having patient plantarflex hallux while applying a dorsiflexory force to proximal phalanx.
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