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You are the PT at a local nursing home. You have received orders to evaluate and treat one of the residents with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. What patient behaviors should you consider when creating your POC?

What effect does moving the rear wheels forward have on wheelchair performance?

A local warehouse safety manager contacts you due to concern of increased incidence of work-related lumbar strains. During your discussion, you find that employees lift greater than 50 lbs from floor to waist frequently and over 100 lbs occasionally.  What recommendations are most appropriate?

An 80 year old patient presents to your clinic with a diagnosis of generalized osteoporosis. What is the BESTexercise to include in the patient’s plan of care to address their complaint of difficulty with standing for long periods of time?

Which of the following aspects of mobility are critical to assess and document during a wheelchair seating assessment?

A 59-year-old female is referred to you with complaints of “pressure” in her pelvic floor and reports increased discomfort with prolonged standing, walking, and exercise. She also complains of difficulty emptying her bladder. This patient is most likely suffering from:

Jane is a 27y/o downhill skier, who exercises with light-moderate weight 3x/week, swims daily, and takes ballet class. She just found out she is pregnant.  Which activity would be MOST appropriate to remove from her program?      

You are treating a patient 3-weeks post C-section. Which interventions are MOST appropriate to include?

A 45-year-old male aircraft mechanic is being evaluated by a physical therapist with complaints of initial onset of lower back pain while lifting a 75 lb component at work yesterday.  Pain is located across his lower back without reports of radicular symptoms.  He demonstrates lumbar flexion of 20 degrees, extension 10 degrees, and no marked asymmetry of rotation and side bending.  His modified Oswestry score is 40% and FABQ-Work scale is 8. 

An 88-year-old frail female has recently been admitted to a skilled nursing facility following a history of several falls. The patient lived alone in a second floor apartment and was unable to return home. The patient is extremely agitated and upset over not being able to return home, and demonstrates early signs of dementia. The patient has been yelling at any staff who enter her room all morning. An important approach to take while working with this patient is: