PT 612
What blood supply is responsible for supplying the language areas of the brain?
Middle Cerebral Artery
What are the five dysfunctions of a team
lack of trust
fear of conflict
lack of commitment
avoidance of accountability
inattention to results
A 5 year child is playing in the sand box with 2 other children and they are taking turns to build a sand castle by passing the shovels back and forth what type of play is this?
Cooperative Play
What category of statistics is used to characterize shape, central tendency, and variability within a set of data
descriptive statistics
A patient with stage 4 RLA asks the PT why can’t I go home, no one wants me to go home, why am I stuck here, I am fine, I just want to go home, get me out of here! What is this an example of?
Anosgnosia
I am having a conversation with my friend Jill and we are talking about next week’s soccer game how is the language processed:
Optic N. to optic tract, LGB of thalamus, primary visual cortex, visual association area, supramarginal and angular gyrus, Wernicke's, dorsal and ventral stream
A patient who is confused and agitated who attempts to crawl out of bed and removes restraints that may exhibit aggressive behavior is what level of RLA?
Level 4
A patient has a lesion on the trochlear nerve is unable to move the eyes
Down and in
What type of distribution occurs from an easy exam which relatively few students achieve a low score
negatively skew (tail to the left)
A patient has a lesion of the vagus nerve will present with what
deviation of the uvula to the contralateral side of involvement
If a patient has a lesion in the right cortex what does the patient display
unable to protrude the tongue so the tongue deviates contralaterally pushing to the left
A patient is having periods of wakefulness/arousal that may or may not have active purposeful movement, cognition, or communication. What levels are these and what is the PT responsibility?
RLA LOCF 2-3 (wakening) increase upright tolerance and opportnity for interaction
What pharmacologic medication for CP acts peripherally at the level of the muscle?
Dantrolene Sodium
What are the three measures of central tendency:
mode, median, mean
A patient with a RLA LOCF 8-10 is in the problem solving and return to PLOF stage what would be an appropriate intervention for the PT?
work toward transitioning from PT to recreation/fitness with simulated community activities
Alex is having a conversation with his therapist and she asks him what classes he is taking. He knows what classes he is taking, but is having trouble telling the therapist what he wants to say. What is this an example of?
Broca's aphasia
A patient who had a moderate TBI is working with the PT and starts crying in the middle of the session, what is this an example of?
Lability
What is the impairment of speech production resulting from damage to the central or peripheral system which causes weakness, paralysis, or incoordination of the motor speech system
dysarthria
What does a narrative review include
background information on a specific topic
The inability to recognize smell due to a tumor in the cortex
anosomia
What is responsible for the calming down the body and a decrease in vascular resistance
dorsal motor nucleus
What is the best clinical indicator of someone who has a severe TBI
>7 days of post traumatic amnesia
The cranial nerve that tests on the anterior 2/3 of the tongue is _______ and the cranial nerve that tests on the posterior 1/3 of the tongue is_______.
facial, glossopharyngeal
What are the advantages of a meta-analysis
increase power by increasing sample size
improve genralizability of the findings
improve estimates of effect size
Resolve uncertainty when conflicting results occur
What is the role of the superior salivary nucleus and what cranial nerve is it involved with
production of saliva and lacrimal fluid
facial nerve