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Which of the following statements regarding sterile packages is TRUE?

Your patient is running top speed on the treadmill.  Which statement is FALSE?

While taking a patient’s blood pressure, how much should the blood pressure cuff be inflated?

On Saturday morning, your Aunt calls you with a concern about your cousin.  Knowing that you are in PTA school, she asks if you can come over and take your cousin’s vital signs.  Your cousin’s pulse seems high to your aunt.  You grab your sphygmomanometer and head over to your aunt’s house.  When you take your cousin’s pulse, it is 135 bpm.  You tell your aunt that this is considered normal.  Your aunt is so relieved that she gives you a big hug.  She then states that she was so nervous that her heart rate is probably elevated!  Just to be sure, you check your aunt’s heart rate as well, using the radial pulse. In preparation for having her pulse taken, your aunt sits down and rests her forearm on the kitchen table in a pronated position.  You ask your aunt to turn “palm facing up”.  Which of the following muscle contractions took place when your aunt turned her forearm into a supinated position?

You are taking the vital signs of your patient, Preston, who is a 16 year old baseball player being treated for biceps tendonitis.  You palpate his radial pulse and count 17 bpm in 15 seconds.  Then you watch his shoulders rise and count 3 inhales/exhales in 15 seconds.  Which of the following best describes how Preston’s vital signs should be documented in his chart?

Tom is a 16 year old high school football player who is coming to outpatient physical therapy due to a sprained deltoid ligament in his left ankle.  Today’s visit was the first time that he used the treadmill.  You took his heart rate when he first came in, right after he got off the treadmill and 5 minutes after he got off of the treadmill.  When he first came in, you counted 10 beats in a 10 second interval.  Right after he ran on the treadmill, you counted 50 beats in a 30 second interval.  Five minutes after he was done with the treadmill, you counted 70 beats in a 60 second interval.  You also took Tom’s BP (blood pressure) before and after he ran on the treadmill. Tom reports pain with palpation of the affected area and with ankle motion that stresses the deltoid ligament.  To determine if there has been any change in Tom’s pain levels during subsequent visits, which of the following areas should you palpate?

Which of the following diagnoses is most likely to have Scissors Gait?

Tom is a 16 year old high school football player who is coming to outpatient physical therapy due to a sprained deltoid ligament in his left ankle.  Today’s visit was the first time that he used the treadmill.  You took his heart rate when he first came in, right after he got off the treadmill and 5 minutes after he got off of the treadmill.  When he first came in, you counted 10 beats in a 10 second interval.  Right after he ran on the treadmill, you counted 50 beats in a 30 second interval.  Five minutes after he was done with the treadmill, you counted 70 beats in a 60 second interval.  You also took Tom’s BP (blood pressure) before and after he ran on the treadmill. When he first came in, what was Tom’s heart rate?

Which of the following is the most important method of reducing the spread of infection?

You are treating Joel, a 22 year old PT student, in the local hospital.  He has been diagnosed with Tuberculosis of the lungs.  He is experiencing coughing, difficulty breathing and fatigue.  The PT wants you to strengthen the prime mover for ventilation. Which of the following activities may cause Joel’s mother to contract Tuberculosis when she visits Joel?