Deck 32: Pta: The Prescriptive Wheelchair

Question 1

Your patient is learning a new task and still relies heavily on vision and your cueing to perform the task correctly.At which stage of learning is this patient?

A)Cognitive stage
B)Reflexive stage
C)Associative stage
D)Autonomous stage

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Compensatory training is the most appropriate choice for which of the following pathologies?

A)Complete spinal cord injury
B)Alzheimer's disease
C)CVA in which functional return has plateaued
D)All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Facilitation techniques intended to promote a muscle contraction would be any of the following EXCEPT:

A)Quick stretch
B)Tapping
C)Joint approximation
D)Slow stretching

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Neurodevelopmental treatment and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation are two approaches to rehabilitation that are included in which of the following frameworks of categories of intervention?

A)Functional training
B)Neuromotor development training
C)Compensatory training
D)Reflex control training

Question 5

Which of the following motor control theories is based on the assumption that the central nervous system is organized into three levels of control in which each level can exercise control over the others?

A)Reflex theory
B)Hierarchical theory
C)Systems theory
D)Chaos theory