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Courses Resources Menu. Practice Exams. Kyle Rice has created 50 high-quality practice questions with detailed rationales. Now you can answer questions from all areas tested on the NPTE. Prep Secrets eBook. Forget studying an entire book! Rice reveals the topics that count on the NPTE exam. Cardiopulmonary Lectures.

Need to focus on cardiopulmonary? Kegel exercises strengthen the pelvic floor and can help with stress incontinence. Hard, non-movable lymph nodes can be a cause for concern. While the patient does not need emergency medical treatment, they will need to have it checked by a physician if they have not already done so.

While exercise is beneficial for patients undergoing lymphedema treatment, high intensity activity should be avoided. Often, in the elderly population, there can be overlap of medications that may interact with each other due to seeing multiple providers.

Poorly managed diabetes can cause damage to the peripheral nervous system beginning distally. People with chronic, unmanaged diabetes can experience balance issues due to decreased proprioception as a result of this damage. Based upon the child's level of the occulta, lack of dorsiflexion should be the biggest deficit. A patient with a T4 SCI should be able to perform manual propulsion even for community use, so a power wheelchair is not appropriate. The patient will be unable to ambulate any significant distance, therefore C is not a good choice.

Phonophoresis is contraindicated for use over non-fused growth plates, therefore making it inappropriate for the 12 year old male patient. It is also contraindicated for recent tumors in the area, and over areas of skin breakdown and infection. Like charges repel. In iontophoresis, it is desired for the medication to flow towards the area of concern.

Therefore, a negatively charged medications such as dexamethasone should be placed on the negative cathode in order to flow towards the positive electrode. This patient would require droplet precautions which includes gloves, gown and mask in the room at all times. Due to the patient's impulsive behavior and cognitive impairment, it is crucial to place the bed alarm on.

Putting other measures in place will also help with patient compliance to follow correct procedure to call the nurse and use AD. Medicare rules indicate that a therapist can only bill for 1 on 1 direct treatment.

There are signs that highly indicate elder care abuse. As a mandatory reporter, the therapist should call in an anonymous tip to have it investigated. The best test to use to compare groups with only one variable is the analysis of variance. The independent T test would not be appropriate as there are three treatment groups. The reliability value indicates the percentage of people who will be correctly identified using that measure.

Prev Next Finish. Bookmark Page. Musculoskeletal System. A patient arrives at an initial evaluation with complaints of ankle pain that began with sudden onset after the patient jumped off a couch. The Thompson Test yields a positive result.

This is indicative of:. High Ankle Sprain. LCL Sprain. Ruptured Achilles Tendon. Navicular Fracture. A true leg length discrepancy may be differentiated from sacroiliac contribution by performing the supine to long sit test.

When a patient has a right anterior innominate:. The right leg will appear shorter in supine and the same length in long sitting. The right leg will appear longer in supine and the same length in long sitting.

The right leg will appear shorter in supine and longer in long sitting. The right leg will appear longer in supine and shorter in long sitting. Neuromuscular System. While working with the upper extremity of a patient who recently had a right hemisphere cerebral vascular accident, the therapist should avoid:. Passive range of motion of the right arm, as the patient is at risk for glenohumeral subluxation.

Passive range of motion of the left arm, as the patient is at risk for glenohumeral dislocation. Placing the right arm in a sling in the acute stage, as it will lead to neglect of the affected arm. Pulling on the patient's left arm to help them stand with transfers. In the initial evaluation of a patient with back pain, the patient describes symptoms including pain the radiates to the dorsal aspect of the foot accompanied by tingling.

On assessment, there is weakness in ankle dorsiflexion. The most likely cause of the patient's back pain is. Nerve root irritation at L4-L5. Nerve root irritation at L5-S1. Postural strain.

Compression fracture. Cardiopulmonary System. A patient presents to therapy with moderate pain in the bilateral distal lower extremities. He reports that the pain is better when his feet are elevated. During evaluation, the therapist notes that the skin has brown discoloration and is flaky and dry. The most likely cause of the patient's leg pain is:. Arterial insufficiency. Venues insufficiency.

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Bilateral calf strains. While reviewing a chart of a new evaluation for PT in acute care, the therapist finds that the patient currently has the following lab values: pH: 7. Which of the following is correct regarding this patient?

The patient is in acute respiratory alkalosis. The patient is in compensated respiratory alkalosis. The patient is in acute metabolic alkalosis. The patient is in compensated metabolic alkalosis. Integumentary System. A patient has a sloughy wound with moderate exudate. The most appropriate wound dressing for this patient is:. Alginate with secondary foam dressing. Foam dressing with secondary film dressing. Hydrocolloid with secondary film dressing. Hydrogel dressing alone. You are providing wound care for a recent adult burn unit admission.

The patient presents with burns covering the left anterior leg, anterior chest, and left anterior arm. The other chapters are all condensed "important material" needed to be successful when taking the boards. Not going to lie the test at the end of the book was hard and I got frustrated thinking, there is no way I will be asked these questions but low and behold I found at least half a dozen duplicates on the boards.

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I feel that it was very helpful to have the page where it talked about tips to help you prepare for the test. I also appreciated that there were practice questions in the book for me to study from.

I give it a 5 rating and believe this will definitely help me pass the test. Thank you so much for making this study guide. Your product was very helpful. Its greatest value was the examples given. So far the stategies are helping! This book really guides you on how to succeed in taking the NPTE! I highly recommend this to all NPTE takers! What content areas will be assessed on this exam? How can I register for the National Physical Therapy exam?