History of Physical Therapy
This person is known as the Father of medicine and the concept of muscle wasting due to inactivity is attributed to this person.
Who is Hippocrates?
This special assembly within the APTA provides a voice for PTAs
What is the Affiliate Assembly or the PTA Caucus?
An individual describing what they can or cannot do, their prior level of function, or their pain is an example of this
what is a subjective statement?
Behavior that is determined by a decision making process, involving careful evaluation of competing options
What is ethical behavior?
These imply that pt will achieve them in the near future and/or indicate a change needing to occur before a long term goal can be met
What are short term goals?
Two major world events that lead to the need for and development of restoration aides
What is Polio and World War l?
In this facility patients usually have a very short stay. Medicare part A is accepted here if patients qualify, and one of the main concerns for PT/PTA is where the patient will be going after discharge
What is Acute Care hospital?
"What were you able to do prior to this injury?" or "Describe your pain" are both examples of this type of questioning
what are open ended questions?
There are 8 of these total, one of which reads "The PTA shall be trustworthy and compassionate in addressing the rights and needs of all clients
What is the Standards of Ethical Conduct for the PTA?
A PTA should do this when a patient has a change in status, a new complaint, abnormal response to intervention, or when they have met all goals or are not meeting goals
Communicate with the PT
This person developed the training curriculum for restoration aides and held the first meeting of the AWPTA
Who is Mary McMillan?
The highest policy-making body in the APTA
What is the House of Delegates?
Measurable data that can be reproduced by another clinician belongs in this part of the SOAP note
What is the Objective section?
A state regulation defining what a PTs and PTAs can and cannot do, licensure requirements, scope of practice, etc
What is the Illinois Practice Act?
The following goal is missing this part of the SMART acronym: "Patient will achieve 120 degrees of active L shoulder flexion in order to wash and comb hair."
What is "T" or time based
In 1925 these specialists known as physical therapy physicians were renamed and given their current title
Who are physiatrists?
A subacute setting which is common following a surgery or other illness when the patient is not appropriate to return home
What is a skilled nursing facility?
This section should not contain any information that cannot be related back to the subjective and objective portions of the SOAP note
what is Assessment?
The ability to imagine oneself in another person's place and to understand the other person's feelings, ideas, desires, and actions
What is empathy?
A PTA should utilize this service when treating a patient who does not speak or understand English very well
What is a medical interpreter?
In 1965 these two government programs were created which greatly expanded access to healthcare and increased the need for physical therapists, leading to the creation of the PTA
what are Medicare and Medicaid?
A setting is for patients who are no longer acute, and Medicare part B is accepted here for the patients who are eligible. Patients may go here if they need specialty care such as women's health
What is an outpatient facility?
This language is used when we refer to patients with emphasis on their identity not their physical limitations
What is person first language?
What is emotional intelligence?
Leaning closer to the patient, your body posture, head nods, and facial expressions are all examples of this
Non-verbal communication