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Targeted muscle reinnervation has been successfully used with individuals with which level of amputation? 

Your patient is a 36 y/o legal secretary who presents with numbness and tingling in her right thenar eminence, weakness in the thenar musculature, and pain in palmar/radial side of the right hand. Symptoms occur at work while completing typing/computer work. Symptoms lessen after work hours but never fully go away. The patient is very concerned because her work capacity is becoming reduced. Your patient is most likely demonstrating: 

Your patient is complaining of hyper-sensitivity following a trans-radial amputation. Which of the following interventions would you recommend first? 

A patient demonstrates the inability to actively extend the PIP and DIP joints of the index through little fingers of the left hand. The OT would accurately document a potential deficit with which peripheral nerve (s)? 

What is the pH of a solution with a hydronium ion concentration of 1.0 x 10^-3 M?

What does Kp represent?

What is the hydroxide ion concentration of a solution with a pH of 12.0?

What is the hydroxide ion concentration of a solution with a pOH of 2.0?

If a solution has a molality of 1.5 m and contains 2 kg of solvent, how many moles of solute are present?

For the reaction N2(g) + 3H2(g) ⇌ 2NH3(g), if at equilibrium [N2] = 0.1 M, [H2] = 0.3 M, and [NH3] = 0.2 M, what is the value of Kc?