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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. 

Describe the guidelines (5) for initiating and progressing an aerobic exercise program for the deconditioned individual and the patient with chronic illness 

Which of the following areas would be most likely not be saturated in a digital image?