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Your patient is a lawyer and is court most days of the week. Her office is located a few blocks from the courthouse and she walks from both places to get her steps in and clear her head. She wears high heeled shoes and has “tweaked” her ankle several times. Two weeks ago she states she “tweaked” it when she was late for a session and tried to run in her shoes. She did PRICE and has tried to take it easy, however, it did not get better and she had a MRI performed. It showed that she had a Grade II ankle sprain. Choose all of the correct descriptions below.

Shaun Anderson, SPTA, is performing Grade I & II joint mobilizations on a patient with shoulder pain. He is following with PROM and incorporating minimal over pressure. As soon as Shaun reaches end range of motion the patient complains of pain. What is the phase of inflammation the patient has presented?

According to the “Heart Attack Pain Diagram” there are eight early warning signs of a heart attack. Provide four.

Match the pathology with the patient complaint of pain or symptom presented.

Identify five ways a PTA can establish rapport with a patient which was highlighted in your Canvas module powerpoint and video lecture.

Two important factors to keep in mind about inflammation is that inflammation is a(n)

You are treating a patient for lower extremity generalized weakness who is a smoker of 60 years. He has decreased endurance to impaired circulation and has been complaining of pain bilaterally. Through your excellent data collection skills, you ask the patient his pain rating and how would he describe the pain. He states that it is burning, cramping, and sharp during activity but does ease up when resting. You recognize this to indicate

Daja Johnson, SPTA, has been treating a patient for one month. The patient has made steady gains and is ready to progress. In preparation, Daja has progressed her exercise plan and has set up the gym space with equipment that will be needed for that treatment. Upon entry, the patient reports she overdid it cleaning her house the day before and is having some increase in pain. Daja, who is less than thrilled to hear this because she spent so much time preparing the progression, brushes the patients concerns aside and is insensitive to the patients needs of a modified treatment for that day. Daja tells the patient, “No pain, no gain.” Daja’s behavior demonstrates:

Most medical errors, sometimes fatal, are the result of:

Your patient had a total knee arthroplasty two months ago. They have been experiencing edema and interventions have included retrograde massage, hi-volt IFC, and rocktape. You have been keeping a regular log of measurements but have noticed increasing edema and now the contralateral leg is edematous with bilateral pitting edema. This can indicate what pathologic condition?