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Which of the following terms is described by the force that pushes the current?

A physical therapist assistant is treating a patient for low back pain using low frequency TENS. Which of the following statements would be most appropriate for the PTA to use to describe the feeling of this treatment to the patient?

Which of the following electrode placements is best for achieving a contraction of the wrist extensors?

Which of the following parameters would be most appropriate to increase in order to increase electrical current depth of penetration.

Which of the following type of current will result in the most changes in the tissues underlying the electrodes as a result of electrode polarity?

A physical therapist’s documented goals include that the patient should increase their right middle deltoid strength from 2/5 to 3-/5 and right shoulder active range of motion from 0 – 40° to 0 – 50° in 2 weeks. Which of the following interventions would be most appropriate for working towards these goals?

Which of the following statements best explains the theory behind treating muscle spasm pain with low frequency TENS?

Which of the following diagnoses would it be most appropriate to treat with iontophoresis using dexamethasone?

Which of the following accurately describe segmentation?It determines the number and orientation of views on one IR.It finds the collimated edges and makes the distinction between the useful densities in the AOI and densities outside of the field.It is also called partitioned pattern recognition.

Alternate names for noise suppression include which of the following?High pass filteringSmoothingLow pass filtering