EBP
Lacks random subject assignment, weaker than experimental, often used when researchers have difficulty finding subjects willing to participate
What is quasi-experimental design?
Focus of attention, level of anxiety, degree of suggestibility, level of arousal, degree of fatigue
What are factors that influence pain?
Acts as the “body’s thermostat” to maintain a normal range of human body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
Upward force that works opposite to gravity. Helps unweight the joint.
What is bouyancy?
Passive motion that is performed by a mechanical device that moves a joint slowly and continuously through a preset, controlled ROM.
What is continuous passive motion?
Highest level in hierarchy of evidence.
What is a systematic Review or meta-analysis of RCTs
Most often the result of an infection, injury, or internal disease. Predictable, relatively easy to diagnose and treat.
What is acute pain?
The gain or loss of heat resulting from direct contact between 2 materials of different temperatures.
What is conduction?
The force that water exerts on an object or body submerged in it. It is applied evenly in all directions and increases with depth.
What is hydrostatic pressure?
The process of obtaining a history, performing relevant systems reviews, and selecting and administering specific tests and measures.
What is Examination?
5 Steps of the EBP process
What are ask, acquire, appraise, apply & asess?
Areas of the muscle innervated by the nerve root.
What are myotomes?
Heat transfer by movement of air or fluid from a warmer area to a cooler area or moving past a cooler body part.
What is convection?
The horizontal flow of water passing over a body part.
What is laminar flow?
This is a widely accepted theory that explains how pain signals are transmitted to the brain and how pain perception can be modulated.
What is the Gate Control Theory of Pain?
Considered the weakest forms of evidence, often used for rare conditions or when no other data is available
more prone to bias.
What is a case study?
Cutaneous, deep somatic, visceral, neuropathic, referred.
What are sources of pain?
Cardiac insufficiency, edema, impaired circulation, metal in treatment area, open wounds.
What are precautions to therapeutic heat?
These are larger whirlpool tanks designed for full-body immersion, but with a low profile.
What is a low boy tank?
This is a psychological framework that explains how individuals progress through various stages when making a behavior change. It emphasizes that change is not linear but rather occurs in stages.
What is Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change?
Improve quality of patient care, maximize reimbursement for physical therapy services, increase the credibility of the physical therapy profession within the health-care industry.
What are reasons to use evidenced based practice?
Pain-processing system is dysfunctional or sensitized. Without clear tissue damage or nerve injury.
What is nociplastic pain?
Decreased BF to the area, decreased edema, decreased local temperature, decreased metabolic rate.
What are therapeutic effects of cold?
This is why people can float in water.
What is specific gravity?
The parameters for Ultrasound for a patient with pain and no swelling.
What is continuous mode, frequency of either 1-3MHz, and intensity between .5 and 2.0 w/cm2?