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An 78-year-old FEMALE patient with LEFT proximal tibial fracture is ready for DC from the hospital. MD order: NWB LEFT 4 weeks.  The PMH: Breast Cancer; deconditioned secondary to prolonged chemotherapy (Last chemo treatment was 3 months ago), HTN, and patient is alert-oriented x3. Demonstrated grossly 4/5 MMT for BILATERAL UE and LEFT LE and has fallen 2x in past 6 months.  Lives with husband in a 1st floor apartment with one curb to enter (no railings). (2 points) Which of the following is the most appropriate assistive device that can be used for this patient? (2 points) Describe the sequence when instructing this patient in sit to stand with the assistive device? (2 points) Describe the sequence when instructing this patient in ascending a curb?

Your patient is an 80-year-old woman who has just sustained a middle cerebral artery stroke and has been transferred to rehabilitation after a short acute hospital stay. You are going to transfer her from the bed to the wheelchair for the first time. Her left side is affected, nurses report in chart she has significant bilateral leg weakness and has difficulty following commands. Which of the following transfers would you be most likely to choose?

A patient referred to you in your home-health practice needs to spend the next 8 weeks on bed rest because of complications of pregnancy. You design an exercise program to reduce the adverse effects of prolonged bed rest. Which of the following is least likely to occur as the result of deconditioning from prolonged bed rest?

You have just completed an evaluation of a patient in your outpatient clinic. This patient needs gait training after sustaining a stroke. Which of the following tasks would be considered “gait training” instead of “ambulating” with the patient?

Be careful with the sound (the SLP is very quiet, but the patient is louder) Case #4 (same sample as the prior question; audio only): Is the overall rhythm of the AMRs  

A stress test should be terminated if:

After evaluating a 77-year-old female patient with impaired balance, her objective findings indicate normal static single-leg balance and normal Romberg but below norms for functional reach (3.0 in) and STAR excursion balance test.  The most appropriate treatment would be:   

Case #7 (audio and video): Based on this clip, what diagnosis can you make? Be specific 

In AOS, there are problems with sequential ordering of movement in correct spatial and temporal relationship to each other. This results in impairments in which two of the five speech subsystems? Please provide your answers in alphabetical order. [answer1]  and [answer2] 

When considering creating treatment targets for individuals with AOS, it’s important to remember that meaningful/real words are easier for them to produce than nonsense/made upwords are.