APTA
Transforming society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience.
What is the APTA Vision Statement?
Suffix that means inflammation.
What is "-itis"?
These 2 events lead to the development of the physical therapy professsion.
What are WW1 and the Polio epidemic?
The federal legislations which protects a patients private health information.
What is HIPPA? Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
What EBP stands for.
What is evidence based practice?
The highest legislative body for the APTA.
What is the APTA House of Delegates?
The opposite directional term to anterior.
What is posterior?
The 1st group of women trained to provide rehabilitative/PT services.
Who are reconstruction aides?
An individuals name, address, birthdate, SSN and physical or mental health condition.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
The lowest level of evidence in the Evidence Based Practice pyramid.
What is expert opinion?
The list of values which guide the behaviors of PTs and PTAs to provide the highest quality of care.
What are the Core Values for the PTA and PTA?
The word root meaning "sense of pain".
What is alges-o?
The year the PTA role was established by the APTA House of Delegates.
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is empathy?
The 3 parts that make up evidence based practice.
What is the clinicians clinical expertise, research/evidence and patients preference?
Sub-groups of the APTA which focus on specific practice settings or areas of interest in healthcare.
What is an APTA section? examples: aquatics, pediatrics, oncology, education.
The word root meaning "clot".
What is thromb-o?
The first physical therapist.
Who is Mary McMillian?
The component of obtaining and reviewing patient history, performing a systems review and various tests and measures.
What is Examination?
The individual who may assist with difficult living situtations for patients upon discharge from a hospital.
Who is a social worker?
The core value stating that PT and PTAs must use current knowledge and skills while understanding personal limits and integrating patients perspective.
What is Excellence?
The word root meaning "joint"?
What is arthr-o?
The 3 components of active listening.
What are restatement, reflection and clarification?
Examples include exercise, gait training, transfers and patient education.
What is an intervention?
The 4 elements that make up a good clinical question when researching a topic.
What is PICO? (Population/patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)