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A physical therapist is evaluating a patient with a diagnosis of right lumbar radiculopathy.  On examination, the therapist notes diminished tibialis posterior, patellar, and tibialis anterior muscle stretch reflexes.  Which of the following is the MOST likely pathoanatomical diagnosis?  

A physical therapist is working in home health care.  The therapist is evaluating a patient for home-based PT following discharge from the hospital where the patient was diagnosed with a deep vein thrombosis.  Which of the following is the MOST appropriate intervention plan?   

A physical therapist is evaluating a patient with low back pain.  The therapist would like to use a classification system to guide the examination and intervention components.  The therapist decides to utilize an examination approach that involves direction-specific, repeated lumbar spine movements, and sustained posture evaluation.  Which of the following classification systems in the therapist MOST likely utilizing in this examination? 

An older patient complains of pain in the right hip region.  The therapist suspects hip osteoarthritis based on the patient’s subjective symptoms.  What clinical test is the BEST choice to confirm this diagnosis?  

A patient with lumbar stenosis has responded well to a flexion biased exercise approach over 2 weeks. Exercises included single and bilateral knee to chest and seated forward flexion with an exercise ball. Radicular symptoms have reduced significantly, but some radicular pain lingers in hamstring and buttock area. Which of the following is the BEST choice for plan of care progression?  

A male physical therapist is working in an inpatient hospital.  A request is received for a physical therapy evaluation on for a patient s/p right hip hemi-arthroplasty.  The therapist arrives and notes that the patient is a Hindu female and looks uncomfortable when she sees the male therapist.  Which of the following is the MOST appropriate course of action?  

A physical therapist is evaluating a direct access patient with that complains of lumbopelvic pain.  The patient is a 60 y/o male that points to the lower abdominal and sacrum regions when asked where the pain is located.  He reports that he cannot recall a specific incident where he may have injured his back.  He does report a history of back pain 5 years ago following shoveling snow after a heavy storm, but it resolved in about 2 weeks with rest and Advil.  He reports a past medical history of diabetes mellitus, lung cancer 8 years ago successfully treated with chemotherapy, and a left knee replacement 2 years ago.  Which of the following is the MOST appropriate examination procedure to initially incorporate?  

Compute the upper limit of the 95% confidence intervals for the inventory of a series of [CC] replications of the simulation of a system, where the average inventory is [AA] units and the SAMPLE standard deviation is [BB]

Using the graph above, state:  a) Domain of the graph b) Range of the graph c) List any relative maximums or minimums of the function.  d) State the intervals in which the function is increasing, decreasing or constant. 

Factor f (x) = 6×3 + 31×2 – 29x + 6 as a product of linear factors given that -6 is a zero.