Extra Credit
A stroke patient leans toward the hemiplegic side if they have this syndrome, which sounds something like a drug-dealing pathology.
Pusher's Syndrome
Kiki needs to plug her laptop in because her battery sucks… how many inches off the floor should the plugs be at the minimum.
24 inches
Often a target of soft tissue massage for patients with low back pain, these muscles insert onto the transverse processes of T12 and L1-5.
Quadratus Lumborum (QL)
This test is designed to mimic everyday walking according to Mary Ann Wharton, and although Kiki and Shawn think this is a better definition for the the DGI and chose it out of spite on the test, their stubbornness was not rewarded.
Figure 8 test
The most effective way to administer this medication is sublingually, useful to know if your patient with Coronary Artery Disease usually takes it and experiences an acute flare up of angina pectoris during treatment.
Nitroglycerin
A Manual Muscle Test being performed on a patient in prone, with the arm abducted to 145 degrees and thumb pointed upward, is used to test this muscle.
Lower Trapezius
It is required to have a landing at least every 30 feet on a ramp. But let’s face it, that’s a long a** ramp and chances are there is not enough space for a straight ramp. So the builders put a switch back in with this dimension for the landing.
5’ x 8’
While the layman might refer to this muscle as the "deep core," we know that this muscle that shares part of its name with a cardinal plane helps to stabilize the pelvis, compress abdominal contents, and facilitate ipsilateral trunk rotation.
Transverse Abdominis
This is the best predictor for future falls.
Fear of Falling
This class of drugs blunts the effects of epinephrine. This helps reduce blood pressure but can also result in lower-than-expected heart rate values during exercise.
Beta Blockers
A person who is deconditioned might benefit from therapy that incorporates more frequent rest periods, also known as this type of "practice."
Distributed Practice
In the girl’s bathroom on the 2nd floor there is an obnoxiously tall toilet seat riser putting a weird gap in between the actual toilet and the place you put your bum. (Sorry guys, TMI). This is the height of ADA-compliant toilets.
1’8’’
There are many of these muscles, which can be found from the sacrum to the cervical spine. Unilaterally, they rotate the vertebral column to the opposite side. Together, they extend the spine.
Multifidi
There’s walking, there’s turning, there’s stepping over things, there's turn your head while walking. This appropriately named gait test has a little bit of everything.
Dynamic Gait Index (DGI)
Inhibiting myocardial contractions and decreasing peripheral resistance is the mechanism by which this class of drugs reduces hypertension. Possible implications for physical therapy treatment include postural hyoptension, which makes sense when you consider the importance of certain voltage-gated chemical channels in muscle contractions.
Calcium Channel Blockers
Don't stress too much, but this condition that we glossed over, a common complication of spinal cord injury above the T6 level, leads to uncoordinated sympathetic nervous system responses that can result in potentially life-threatening episodes of hypertension.
Autonomic Dysreflexia
A transfer shower with an L shape seat and grab bar should be at least this dimension.
3’ x 3’
One of the muscles targeted by everybody's favorite pastime, the side plank, this trunk stabilizer also unilaterally functions to accomplish lateral flexion of the vertebral column to the same side.
Internal Oblique
Alzheimer’s does not only affect a patient's memory but other cognitive and physical effects occur. This is the number 1 cause of death among Alheimer’s patients.
Aspiration Pneumonia
Quinapril and Benazepril both excel at treating hypertension in patients with heart failure since they belong to this class of drugs, which acts by preventing the conversion of angiotensin I to II and also by preventing aldosterone secretion.
ACE Inhibitors
Recent research on High Intensity Interval Training would disagree, but traditionally 3.0 METs was considered the limit for patients with this "class" of heart failure, described as having marked limitation of physical activity with 'less than ordinary' activity levels, though comfortable at rest. Any farther than this is the no-fly zone for therapy.
Class III
Corridors are 48’’ min, ramp is 1:12" rise-to-run or 8.3% gradient, but this is the curb width.
40"
Perhaps the Egyptians are responsible for this cool-sounding muscle that is responsible for tensing the linea alba.
Pyramidalis
Beat the timer or be at risk! This is how long it should take someone to perform TUG without being considered a fall risk.
14 Seconds
Sometimes used for heart failure patients with systolic dysfunction, this drug increases the force of cardiac contractions (and possibly ejection fraction, too) without increasing oxygen demand. It has fallen out of favor since adverse effects include: POTENTIALLY FATAL toxicity. Jeez. Even the name seems to foreshadow death by toxin ….
Digoxin or Digitalis