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You are working with a patient who has absent RUE sensation. What would be the most appropriate approach/intervention to take? 

The following terminal device most closely mimics typical hand function: 

Your client described a time prior to chronic pain when he painted portraits. He often lost track of time, felt great satisfaction, and things came together seamlessly.  What motivation concept should the OT strive toward to help the client recapture this type of activity engagement? 

The physician has ordered an active protocol for a patient that suffered a flexor tendon injury and surgical repair in the palm proximal to the left index finger. Immediately following surgery, the OT would instruct the patient to do which of the following with the left index finger, in a limited or protected range? 

An OT intervention for an individual with impaired sensation to the hand, using repetition of tactile, visual, and cognitive information with the goal of improving functional sensibility, would be accurately documented as which intervention? 

A patient recently diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome in the RUE (post radius fracture, no current precautions or limitations in relation to the fracture) would benefit most from the following OT intervention: 

You observe your client to have drooping of the distal first phalanx without any other deformities. You choose to splint this deformity to prevent contracture, however the client is non-adherent to their splint wearing schedule ultimately resulting in a DIP flexion contracture. This could potentially lead to which of the following?

A client with fibromyalgia reports issues with sleep quantity and quality. The client shares, “my pain will always prevent me from sleeping well.” The OT should begin with which intervention for this client? 

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: