Keeping it Clean/Alliance
This term is reserved for infections acquired in the hospital
Nosocomial
This person was the founder of Physical Therapy? and these 2 historical events lead to the importance of the profession?
Mary McMillan
WWI and Polio
The level of the bed should be at this height when performing pushing/pulling lateral transfer.
Level of the thigh
This position seated on the bed is BEST for the patient prior to laying down so repositioning in supine is less likely.
1/3 of the way down from the head of the bed
This is the version of the RLA (Rancho Los Amigos) term for "Heel Strike"
Initial Contact
This mode of transmission refers to "person-to-object-to-person transfer of pathogens"
Indirect Contact
According to "The Guide to Physical Therapist Practice" describe the difference between the terms “patients” and “clients”
Clients: Individuals who engage the services of a physical therapist and who can benefit from the physical therapist’s consultation, interventions, professional advice, health promotion, fitness, wellness, or prevention services. Clients are also businesses, school systems, and others to whom physical therapists provide services
Patients: Individuals who are the recipients of physical therapy examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention and who have a disease, disorder, condition, impairment, functional limitation, or disability.
This level of patient is an extensive assist, with no manual lifting; use of a sling or mechanical lift is advised
Level 3
With our Hemiplegia patient it is typically easier for them to roll to this side when getting OOB.
Weaker side
The term describing forward distance between the heel strike of the left foot and the heel strike of the right foot is known as
Step Length
This type of Isolation precaution/PPE is required to be donned prior to entering a patient infected with MRSA
Gown
Gloves
The ONLY component of patient/client management that can be performed by the PTA?
Interventions
This patient is a Level 2 assistance who can bear weight on B LE's, flex at the hips, knees, and ankles, and can maintain sitting balance without extensive support. For progressions in therapy what kind of lift device would be MOST appropriate to utilize for this person
Sit-to-stand lift (Sara Lift)
You are treating a patient in the hospital setting. He just had a posterior hip replacement yesterday. What are your patients hip precautions, and what direction is typically BEST for your patient to move toward when getting OOB.
No flexion past 90 degrees
No ADD past midline/0 degrees
No IR
Toward the weaker side
These two points are used for proper measuring of the hand rest for an AD.
Ulnar Styloid process
Greater Trochanter
•: This means of transmission involves small pathogenic particles that remain suspended for longer periods of time and are inhaled by or deposited on the host
Airborne
This term is found within the Hippocratic oath and means "do no harm"
Nonmaleficence
This patient can provide 75-99% of the effort and is associated with a FIM score of 4.
Minimal Assistance (MinA)
This is a CONTRAINDICATION of the thoracolumbar spine after a back surgery
Segmental rotation of the spine
You are educating your patient who is TTWB on the LLE on stair navigation/training. You are at the top of the stairs what are your instructions to your patient for moving safely down the stairs FIRST
The weaker LE & AD go first while the stronger leg lowers the weaker LE and AD to the step/ground following.
These 3 categories are essential to comprise what's known as the Therapeutic Alliance
Person
Task
Environment
In 1981 this "how to" document was created as a guide to follow in behavior and ethics for the PTA
Standards of Ethical Conduct for the Physical Therapist Assistant
Mike is working on gait training with his patient in the outpatient clinic. His patient was sent to physical therapy to help with getting stronger so she can get up/down her stairs to enter her mobile home safely. The patient presents with arthritis and walks with a cane while at home. Mike decides to work on stair training using a cane with his patient who is fearful of falling. Mike also reassures the patient “we will move slow” while we perform this activity. Which level of assist does this patient require during stair training?
Modified Independent (ModI)
This special kind of bed can be used for SCI patients and is a controlled progression from supine to standing
Tilt Table
This type of gait pattern involves two AD's that are advanced with the NWB LE and then followed by the WB LE in a swing to or swing through gait pattern.
Three-point gait pattern