Weight Bearing
True or False
Weight-bearing as tolerated is a Partial-bearing status
False, What is a FWB status?
Where the ambulation device should fall to make sure the patient can flex their elbow to 20 degrees?
What is the wrist crease?
What is the only device that you can teach a typical gait pattern with?
What is a rolling walker?
When going UP the stairs which leg is always the 1st leg to go up?
What is the good leg?
Toe Touch Weight Bearing (TTWB)
What is a patient can bear no more than 5% of their weight through the extremity?
The best and MOST often used device for a Parkinson's patient
If your patient is a BKA what gait pattern will you teach?
What is a 3-point pattern?
When going upstairs the AD is always married to what leg?
What is the bad leg?
MD order states a patient can bear 50% of their weight in the extremity. What type of weight-bearing status is this?
PWB
Partial Weight Bearing
The ambulation device(s) you can give your patient if they are learning a 4-point gait pattern.
What are bilateral Crutches or bilateral canes
What is the difference between a 2-point/4-point and a 2-point/4-point modified gait pattern?
What 2/4 pt modified gait patterns only use 1 assistive device.
What is the proper position when training a patient to go up the stairs with a pickup walker? (hand placement and walker placement)
What is the hand on the front grip and front leg of the pickup walker on the step above?
This weight-bearing status requires the clinician to weigh the patient first.
What is partial weight bearing?
Do you adjust the height or the hand grip on axillary crutches 1st when fitting them to your patient?
What is height?
If a patient has a mild balance impairment but good endurance what AD would you use?
What is a straight cane?
What leg comes DOWN the stairs first
What is the bad leg?
NWB means
What is a patient cannot bear any weight on the extremity?
List in order ambulation aides of Greatest stability to least stability and (There are seven) HINT: sc, bc, qc, pb, w, sc, bc
Parallel Bars
walkers
bilateral crutches
single crutch
bilateral canes
quad canes
single cane
True or false. If you have a patient that is NWB you can teach them a 4-point gait pattern.
What is false?
Where the PTA should stand to protect the patient while ascending stairs.
Where is standing behind the patient?