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You are working with a person who recently sustained a T8 SCI and is learning to propel a manual wheelchair for the first time. Which of the following recommendations should you NOT include in your training? 

During your initial PT evaluation, you note that Nelson has tetraplegia and weak vocal quality but is breathing on his own.  What is the most likely outcome you would expect in terms of his recovery?

The next section of the course solely focuses on hiring employees. What are you most looking forward to learning about next?

Your newest patient has experienced a brainstem stroke. You arrive in her hospital room to do your evaluation, and she is still eating lunch. She is having difficulty chewing her food.  She complains of pain and numbness in her left cheek.  Which cranial nerve is most likely involved?

Why does reliability limit validity coefficients?

Mr. Anderson had a stroke in the right hemisphere of his brain, resulting in left sided weakness. He is unable to perform left hip abduction in sidelying. He demonstrates full active range of motion in the gravity eliminated position with left hip abduction but is unable to accept any resistance. The manual muscle test grade for his left hip abductors would be: 

You are working in a rural hospital where there is no speech or occupational therapy. You are seeing a patient who has experienced a stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain. She uses an abundance of words while speaking, but there are many word substitutions and the content doesn’t make much sense. How would you document this?

Why can we never really confirm what truth is with science?

Why are job analyses worth conducting?

Why are well conducted meta-analyses the ‘platinum standard’ of social science?