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When doing range for increasing ankle dorsiflexion:

A PTA assesses the functional strength of a patient’s hip extensors when observing the patient ascending stairs. What type of contraction occurs in the hip extensors during this activity?

You are going to evaluate a 10 year old with a diagnosis of Ehler’s-Danlos syndrome. You would expect to observe:

Cellular respiration using glucose (C6H12O6) begins with

According to Ayres, which of the following systems DOES NOT play a vital role in the development of sensory processing?

Considering PROM in pediatrics, which of the following is FALSE?

During early development, the infant appears to have an enlarged abdomen in proportion to the rest of the body. This is due to:

Sally is being seen by her PT in a distraction-free environment, 2X/week, working on educationally related functional activities with emphasis on new motor skills that require therapeutic interventions that may not yet be safe to delegate to others.  Which service delivery model does this describe?

You are manually muscle testing a patient as part of a progress report. You note full ROM with gravity minimized. What grade would you give this muscle?

Clara is a bright, alert 11 year old with spastic diplegia. She has learned to use spasticity through her lower extremities to push into standing for transfers and is quite independent. At night, her spasticity is causing spasms and pain and is interfering with sleep. Clara may be a good candidate for an Intrathecal Baclofen pump because: