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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: 

Your patient is complaining of hyper-sensitivity following a trans-radial amputation. Which of the following interventions would you recommend first? 

A patient demonstrates the inability to actively extend the PIP and DIP joints of the index through little fingers of the left hand. The OT would accurately document a potential deficit with which peripheral nerve (s)? 

What is the pH of a solution with a hydronium ion concentration of 1.0 x 10^-3 M?

What does Kp represent?