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During treatment in an outpatient rehabilitation center for an 18 month old child with developmental delay and an atrioventricular shunt for hydrocephalus, the mother tells the assistant that the child vomited several times this morning, was irritable and is now lethargic. The assistant’s BEST course of action is to:

A physical therapist assistant holds an infant in a vertical position and then tilts the infant’s body to the left. The infant’s head stays in a vertical position. This is a description of which reaction:

A parent bring their baby in to PT with concerns of developmental delay. Parent reports baby is 7 months old and is not rolling from tummy to back yet. You educate the parent on:

The physical therapist assistant is asked to make recommendations for a patient’s prosthesis. Which type of shank will allow for easier adjustments to improve function of the prosthesis:

How do mechanical knees control knee extension?

Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy are deficient in which protein?

An appropriate fine motor behavior that should be established by 9 months of age would be the ability to:

An appropriate fine motor behavior that should be established by 9 months of age would be the ability to:

How do mechanical knees control knee extension?

How do mechanical knees control knee extension?