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If a child is choking, you should put 2 fingers above their navel to give abdominal thrusts.

Having your patient perform wheelchair push-ups is a closed kinetic chain activity.

When quadriceps and hamstrings, an agonist and antagonist, are contracting simultaneously, this is termed a synergist. 

 When bending down from a standing position to tie your shoes with the hip flexed and knee extended simultaneously, the hamstrings across both joints may become:

If you wanted to isolate the gluteus maximus to test it during hip extension, you would have your patient do this during hip extension.

You ask your patient to perform shoulder flexion and abduction exercises using cuff weights.  Your patient is performing closed-kinetic chain activities because the cuff weights are fixed to the patients wrists.  

Someone with quadriplegia who retains voluntary wrist movement but not finger movement can open and close their hand due to tenodesis. In regards to tenodesis, a functional grasp and release of light objects can occur for patients utilizing:

Empathy can be cultivated through imagination and educational experiences.

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