PTA 101: Intro to Documentation
Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan
What is a SOAP note?
This term refers to walking and moving around.
What is ambulation?
A measurement took used to assess range of motion (ROM).
What is a goniometer?
An immunological defense against injury, infection, or allergy.
What is inflammation?
A term describing a plane dividing the body into right and left halves.
What is the sagittal plane?
The section of a SOAP note including measurable and observable facts.
What is the Objective section?
Self-feeding is considered this type of activity.
This category of modalities includes treatments such as traction and compression.
What are mechanical modalities?
These are the three primary functions of connective tissues during the inflammatory process.
What are mechanical, nutritive, and protective?
This type of joint allows movement in only one plane.
What is a hinge joint?
The section of a SOAP note that typically includes long-term and short-term goals.
What is the Assessment section?
A type of wheelchair designed specifically for easy transfer.
What is a transfer board wheelchair?
A factor that makes the use of a modality inadvisable.
What is a contraindication?
This inflammatory response phase begins immediately after injury.
What is the Hemostasis phase?
The ability to measure the same joint motion consistently leads to this term.
What is reliability?
This is a rule governing the treatment time required for billing.
What is the 8 minute rule?
Term for the procedure used to find the most efficient method of doing an activity.
What is work simplification?
A pain scale used for assessing the effectiveness of therapeutic modalities.
What is the VAS pain scale?
This inflammatory process phase is characterized by disorganization of collagen production.
What is the subacute phase?
The consistency of measurements between two different therapists.
What is intertester reliability?
This refers to a situation in which a patient can see a physical therapist without prior physician referral.
What is direct access?
What is environmental optimization?
A type of therapeutic modality specifically helpful in reducing inflammation.
What are thermal modalities?
What is exudate?
0-150 degrees is the correct range for this joint motion.
What is elbow flexion?