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The ability to maintain normal alignment relationships between the various body segments and between the body and the environment is know as:

Your patient, who sustained a left CVA 6 weeks ago, has been working on the task of washing in therapy. The patient demonstrates the ability to complete the task consistently with few errors. The patient is occasionally distracted when someone speaks on the overhead pager. Which of the following BEST describes the patient’s stage of motor learning?

You are treating a patient who sustained a right CVA 5 months ago. You are working on dynamic sitting balance including reaching activities. When you ask your patient to reach forward with both UEs, the patient only reaches with her R UE. This patient would benefit from:

Your supervising PT has included gait training in your patient’s POC and you have chosen to use the Body Weight Support and Treadmill System so that you will be able to move the patient’s involved LE to facilitate his gait pattern. You are using a/an:

Your patient sustained an SCI 6 months ago and has been attending outpatient therapy for 4 months. During the therapy sessions, the patient works on activities such as going up/down ramps and curbs in his wheelchair outside, independent transfers in and out of the family car, and wheelchair mobility through doorways in the clinic. The treatment interventions have been focusing on:

When ambulating a patient in the parallel bars with his assistive device using Min A, the therapist should be positioned:

This approach bases its treatment on the belief that abnormal patterns of movement are due to a release of abnormal postural reflex activity and uses the NDT approach.

Mr. Johnson’s evaluation states that he is oriented x 3, and there are no cognitive deficits noted. As such, which of the following would be the best strategy during functional mobility training for rolling to the less affected side?

You are treating a patient with a diagnosis of CVA. You have been working on interventions to improve trunk control, and you patient is now able to reach overhead, down to the floor, and across mid-line for objects without losing her balance. What will be the next logical step in the progression of your patient?  

If cultural relativism is true, Rachels says that means. . .  Select all that are true.