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What is one of the two main causes of congenital torticollis?

Which of the following diagnoses most frequently results in amputation:

Which of the following diagnoses most frequently results in amputation:

A patient with bilateral short femoral amputations will require a wheelchair for functional mobility in the home and community. What is an important feature to include in a wheelchair prescription for this patient?

You are working with a prosthetist and a patient with a new transtibial amputation. The patient is 22 years old and has led an active lifestyle prior to his traumatic  loss of the leg. His goal is to return to hiking with his friends. Which type of foot do you think is MOST appropriate given his lifestyle:

A parent brings in their infant for treatment for torticollis. You see your clinical instructor (CI) getting a physioball and placing the infant on the ball on their left side. What side of the neck would this be stretching? 

A patient is being evaluated for a below the knee amputation prosthesis. The patient will wear and use the prosthesis only when walking with assistance of another person in the home. Which foot recommendation would be MOST appropriate:

An infant was referred to physical therapy for right torticollis. In order to MOST effectively stretch the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle the head and neck should be positioned into which position?

During treatment in an outpatient rehabilitation center for an 18 month old child with developmental delay and an atrioventricular shunt for hydrocephalus, the mother tells the assistant that the child vomited several times this morning, was irritable and is now lethargic. The assistant’s BEST course of action is to:

A physical therapist assistant holds an infant in a vertical position and then tilts the infant’s body to the left. The infant’s head stays in a vertical position. This is a description of which reaction: