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Keilani is conducting an assessment with a new client. The client’s family has just moved from country that is relatively remote and rural. When conducting a skills assessment, she notices that the client seems to have difficulty with stimuli relating to professions more common in urban areas as well as objects and stimuli that are not utilized in their day-to-day life. This suggests that the client is far less skilled verbally than other areas of the assessment indicate. Which of the following can Keilani do to better integrate culturally relevant variables into the assessment process?  

Your patient presents with complaints of cervical spine pain with limited motion. While conducting an examination you note right side cervical hypomobility, attributed to muscle spasms and contractions, causing a right side lateral flexion posture. How should you apply these examination findings to the patient’s cervical traction treatment? 

Even though scoring on the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool, 5th edition (SCAT5) should not be used as a stand alone method to measure recovery or to make decisions about an athlete’s readiness to return to participation following a concussion, it can be used to measure recovery and progress. Which of the following score changes on the SCAT5 indicate patient improvement? 

What screening should occur before administering any treatment to the cervical spine? 

Which of the following exercises are appropriate in attempting to decrease the symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome? 

When Lilia arrives at the clinic, she throws her bags on the ground and begins playing with toys. The next day, the therapist tells Lilia, “First, hang your bag on the hook. Then, you can play with the toys,” and prevents her from accessing the toys. Lilia begins crying and screaming. Which of the following is the effect of Lilia’s therapist withholding the toys until she hangs her bag on the hook?  

Which of the following statements best describes a mechanical cervical traction protocol aimed at opening the intervertebral space? 

The Chinese culture is a tight social framework in which people take care of the members of a broader in-group and act loyal to it. In the context of Hofstede’s dimensions, what is the cultural dimension used to describe the Chinese culture?

George is described by his friends as curious and imaginative. He is probably high on the trait of _______.

What intervention would you do first for this patient?