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Carla recently suffered a stroke that resulted in total right side hemiparesis. As part of your initial evaluation, you assess patient bed mobility. Patient is moderate assist x1 to come sitting edge of bed from supine. Once seated with feet on the floor, patient is noted to fully extend unaffected arm and lean toward affected side losing her ability to sit up safely without assistance. What is happening with your client? 

Which of the following goals would be most characteristic of the PNF treatment approach??

What would be the BEST intervention to restore the condition that your client is demonstrating in the above question?

Your patient presents with ataxia in upper and lower extremities and trunk, dysmetria (specifically hypermetria) and intention tremors. She has difficulty with rate and rhythm when attempting alternating and reciprocal movement patterns. Which screening measure did the OT use to identify that the patient has difficulty with rapid alternating movements?

Your patient sustained a stroke 2 weeks ago. The patient demonstrates a decreased ability to shift his weight while seated in the wheelchair and leans left. Spasticity is noted throughout the left extremities. The patient has difficulties in all ADLs and requires moderate assist for transfers. Based on the NDT approach, the OT would promote increased awareness of the hemiplegic side through:

A therapist wants to use PNF to facilitate the hand to mouth phase of self-feeding.  Which unilateral diagonal pattern will the therapist incorporate into various developmental postures to promote functional use of this pattern in feeding?

Which of the following represents the lowest vacuum?

A pressure of 100 microns has been reached with the vacuum pump operating. The pump is turned off and the gauge reading rises above 5,000 microns and keeps rising. What does this indicate?

A micron gauge is used to measure ____.

Explain why triple evacuations are not normally performed on large systems.