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You are treating a patient in her home who was diagnosed with LCVA.  She uses a cane in her home safely, but demonstrates difficulty with reaching and weight shifting to reach into her cabinets.  Which assessment, that the PT performed during the initial evaluation would identify this problem?  

Symptoms of mild head injury (“concussion”) include all of the following EXCEPT:

You are asked to assess your patient’s balance.  During gait training you provide an unexpected “gentle push from behind” (posterior to anterior perturbation). This is to assess:  

At which age does an infant reach the motor milestone of sitting?

Signs and symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis include all of the following EXCEPT:

When considering hemispheric differences post CVA, which is NOT an example of left brain injury?

Glasgow Coma Scale is the scale that measures levels of consciousness and helps define and classify the level of brain injury sustained.  Which of the following is NOT a traditional scoring component of this scale?

When considering hemispheric differences post CVA, which is NOT an example of left brain injury?

Match each adjective with their opposite.   

Beta-carotene is normally expressed in the leaves of rice plant. However Golden Rice is a GMO (genetically modified organism) that is engineered, so that it can express the enzymes in the _________ tissue to make beta-carotene within it. This can be very useful to treat vitamin A deficiency associated infections and blindness in poor countries that have rice as their staple diet.