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List the four reasons a patient might need an assistive device.

The patient is negotiating stairs with bilateral canes. Which method should be utilized for the activity?

True/False Defend: Your client must be NWB  on the right lower extremity. The least restrictive device for this weight bearing status would be bilateral canes. 

Mr. Blake, age 56, was playing basketball with his son when he suffered a stroke and was hospitalized for 1 week in the ICU. He has regained minimal use of his right hand and he has regained partial use of the right leg. He is now receiving intensive physical, occupational, and speech therapy in the rehabilitation center. He has been working in the parallel bars on his gait progression. Using the scenario above, which of the following activities are best for Mr. Blake’s initial treatment in the parallel bars?

Janis McCutchen, ago 50, has weakness and pain in her lower extremities due to an old injury. Her pain becomes progressively worse over the course of the day and she fatigues easily. She still has a child she must support through school and needs to remain mobile. The physical therapist asks for the PTA input on the PT intervention. What gait pattern and assistive device would the PTA choose?

There are TWO requirements for a cell marker to be considered a Complete Antigen.  Identify And Define the two requirements.

Part 1: Describe the specific process by which a CD8 T Cell is activated.  Part 2: What type of cells does the CD8 T Cell become when activated?  Describe the functions of those activated CD8 T Cell.  

Part 1: Identify and describe the two pathways for compliment protein activation. Part 2: Describe the functions of C3a and C3b. 

Identify how the following hormones are regulated.  Be Specific: Aldosterone Cortisol Catecholamines Thyroid Stimulating Hormone

Identify and describe the process by which a T cell becomes immunocompetent.