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Which scale ranging from 6 to 20 is used to measure a patient's rating of perceived exertion during exercise?
What is the BORG Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) scale
What is the most common SYMPTOM of brain tumors?
Headache
According to Medicare standards, an amputee who has the ability or potential for ambulation with the ability to traverse low-level environmental barriers is assigned this K-level.
What is K2?
This specific orthosis uses active wrist extension to produce finger flexion and is primarily indicated for C6 tetraplegia.
What is a wrist-driven prehension (tenodesis) orthosis?
This term refers to the linear distance between corresponding successive points of contact of the same foot (e.g., heel strike to heel strike).
What is stride length?
Which cardiac rehab phase is the early outpatient program, generally within the first 3–6 months after a cardiac event, and is the most widely documented to reduce CVD mortality?
Phase II (Early Outpatient) Cardiac Rehabilitation
What is the most common primary CNS solid tumor in young adults?
Cerebellar astrocytoma
These are the ideal shapes for a transtibial versus a transfemoral residual limb.
What are cylindrical (transtibial) and conical (transfemoral)?
This is the maximum recommended duration for wearing a soft cervical collar to avoid muscle atrophy and psychological dependency.
What is 10 days?
While standing, the body’s center of gravity is typically located 5 cm anterior to this specific vertebral body.
What is the S2 vertebra?
Name this NYHA class. Patient comfortable at rest, but limited by fatigue and dyspnea with ordinary activity. Can garden, roller-skate, and complete sexual intercourse (≥5 METs) but cannot sustain activities ≥7 METs
NYHA Class II
While the axial skeleton is the most common site for bone metastasis overall, this specific bone is the most common site for pathologic fractures, with 80% occurring in its proximal portion.
What is the femur?
These five areas are considered "pressure-tolerant" when fitting a socket.
What are the patellar tendon, pretibial muscles, medial tibial flare, popliteal fossa, and lateral fibula shaft?
To stabilize a weak quadriceps muscle and prevent the knee from buckling, an AFO's ankle joint can be adjusted into this position to move the Ground Reaction Force (GRF) anterior to the knee.
What is plantarflexion?
This gait deviation involves a lateral lean of the trunk toward the weak side to keep the center of gravity over the stance leg.
What is a compensated Trendelenburg gait?
What are the major physiologic adaptations and clinical benefits of long-term outpatient cardiac rehabilitation? (VO₂max, stroke volume, arteriovenous oxygen (A-V O₂) difference, and myocardial oxygen demand)
- increased VO₂max
- increased stroke volume
- greater arteriovenous oxygen (A-V O₂) difference
- reduced myocardial oxygen demand
What finding on EMG is pathognomonic of radiation-induced plexopathy?
Myokymia
However, absence of myokymic discharges does not exclude radiation damage
This body-powered terminal device is maintained in a closed position by rubber bands or springs and requires humeral flexion to open.
What is a voluntary-opening (VO) terminal device?
This external shoe modification is a convex strip placed posterior to the metatarsal heads to facilitate rollover during stance and reduce pressure on the forefoot.
What is a rocker bar (or rocker bottom shoe)?
During normal human gait, the body’s center of gravity (COG) follows a smooth, sinusoidal path, reaching its highest vertical state during this specific subdivision of the stance phase.
What is midstance?
In heart transplant recipients, the chronotropic response to exercise is delayed and blunted because it relies on these circulating substances rather than direct sympathetic innervation.
What are catecholamines?
In children and teenagers, these are the two most common types of primary malignant bone tumors.
What are osteosarcoma and Ewing tumors?
In an ischial containment socket, weight-bearing is concentrated in these two specific areas.
What are the medial aspect of the ischium and the ischial ramus?
These are the most common sites for pressure ulcers in a patient wearing a halo vest.
What are the scapula and sternum?
In a transfemoral amputee, if the prosthetic heel travels medially during the initial flexion of the swing phase, the observer is witnessing this gait deviation, often caused by an externally rotated knee bolt.
What is a medial whip?