Tilt Table
This number describes a low blood pressure at which a PTA should not perform tilt table intervention
What is 80/50?
This assistive device is best used to support a patient with mild balance challenges and provides the least amount of support
What is a single point cane?
A patient is ambulating with 2 axillary crutches and is NWBing on the RLE.
What is 3 point gait pattern?
Subacute and chronic inflammation, pain, scar tissue, lung conditions
What are (some of the) indications for manual therapy?
the rest: edema, hypersensitivity, prevent contracture/treat contracture, HA
Upward thrust of water that created an apparent decrease in the wt of a body
What is buoyancy?
This angle is the initial angle of elevation when a PTA performs a tilt table intervention
What is 30°?
This assistive device is the MOST stable and is typically used for pre-gait standing, initial gait training, and supporting the patient while fitting other assistive devices
What are parallel bars?
A patient is ambulating with a single point cane with simultaneous contralateral alternating UE/LE
What is modified 2 point gait?
Pregnancy, anticoagulated patients, burns, decreased sensation, osteoporosis
What are (some of the precautions) for manual therapy?
the rest: recent surgery/fracture, increased sensitivity to touch, CV impairment, edema
After application of a cold pack the the shoulder, the PTA notices the patient's skin is pink
What is due to oxygen binding more tightly to hemoglobin and not entering into cells
This describes what a PTA should do procedurally when the patient's blood pressure is above 140/90
STOP elevation, DO NOT LOWER. Call the PT or a nurse?
This assistive device is most effective for a patient with impaired balance, who is a community ambulator and may develop fatigue walking longer distances
What is a 4WW?
The PTA is standing on the patient's involved side holding onto the gait belt while ambulating with a patient
What is guarding?
A light stroke, intended to accustom the patient to touch, spread lubricant and allow the therapist to palpate soft tissue
What is effleurage?
A PTA gently presses their thumb or index finger into the patient's skin and removes it, the skin is blanched and returns to normal color within 3 seconds
What is assessing skin circulation and normal capillary refill?
Name 4 indications for tilt table treatment intervention
What are: orthostatic hypotension, need for prolonged WBing in BLE, provide static stretch of the LE, facilitate cognitive arousal?
A PTA is fitting a patient with a 2WW, describe the patient's positioning when the walker is appropriately fit
What is the patient is standing with the balls of his feet between the back legs of the walker with hands on the hand grips and elbows bent between 20-30°?
A patient who is WBAT on the LLE is ambulating with a 4WW with step pause gait pattern
What is 4 point gait pattern?
Elimination of metabolic waste, muscle relaxation, decreased pain, decreased edema
What are CIRCULATORY effects of manual therapy?
(HINT: know the difference between circulation, nervous system, connective tissue effects of manual therapy -- I asked some sneaky questions about this)
The depth to which superficial heat is effective in heat after 20 minutes
What is 1-2 cm?
skin temp ↑ up to 0.5cm within 6-8minutes
soft tissue temp ↑ 1-2 cm within 15 -30 minutes
no significant ↑ at a depth of 3cm
List 3 precautions to ponder before providing tilt table intervention
What are: decreased WB in BLE; open wound on dorsum body/plantar feet; unstable cardiovascular status?
Describe why a patient would use a rolling walker with a R side platform
What is the patient is NWBing through the R wrist/hand, but is able to WB through the elbow?
A PTA is describing gait to a patient: Move the forearm crutches forward, step forward with your LLE but only put 50% of your wt through your leg by pushing through your arms while you step forward with your RLE
What is describing/teaching 3-1 gait pattern?
Malignancy, unhealed fracture, fever, acute inflammation
What are (some of the) contraindications for manual therapy?
the rest: acute conditions, post op tendon repair, open skin, bleeding/bruising, thrombus
Decreased pain and stiffness, alleviation of muscle spasm, increased ROM and improved tissue healing
What are physiological effects of superficial heat?