Fortinberry - Chapter 3 (PT Apps) Flashcards
Foundations for Evaluation, Differential Diagnosis, and Prognosis
The most serious complication of lower extremity thrombophlebitis is
Cerebral infarction
Pulmonary infarction
Myocardial infarction
Kidney infection
Pulmonary infarction
Which of the following are tests for peripheral arterial involvement in a patient with complaints of calf musculature?
Claudication time
Homan’s sign
Percussion test
Hoffa’s sign
Claudication time
A physician instructs the therapist to educate a patient about the risk factors of atherosclerosis. Which of the following is the most inappropriate list?
a.Diabetes, male gender, and excessive alcohol
b. Genetic predisposition, smoking, and sedentary lifestyle
c. Stress and inadequate exercise
d. Obesity, smoking, and hypotension
d. Obesity, smoking, and hypotension
A therapist is ordered by a physician to treat a patient with congestive heart failure in an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation facility. Which of the following signs and symptoms should the therapist not expect?
Stenosis of the mitral valve
Orthopnea
Decreased preload of the right heart
Pulmonary edema
Decreased preload of the right heart
At a team meeting, the respiratory therapist informs the rest of the team that the patient, just admitted to the subacute floor, experiences breathing difficulty in the acute care department. The respiratory therapist describes the breathing problem as a pause before exhaling after a full inspiration. Which of the following is the therapist describing?
Apnea
Orthopnea
Eupnea
Apneusis
Apneusis
A therapist is performing chest physiotherapy on a patient who is coughing up a significant amount of sputum. The therapist later describes the quality of the sputum in his notes as mucoid. This description tells other personnel which of the following?
The sputum is thick
The sputum has a foul odor
The sputum is clear or white in color
The patient has possible bronchopulmonary infection
The sputum is clear or white in color
A therapist is sent to provide passive range of motion to a patient in the intensive care unit. The chart reveals that the patient is suffering from pulmonary edema. The charge nurse informs the therapist that the patient is coughing a thin, white sputum, with a pink tint. Which of the following terms best describe this sputum?
Purulent
Frothy
Mucopurulent
Rusty
Frothy
Strengthening exercises for persons with hemophilia should
a. Begin as soon as joint bleed is recognized
b. Never include isokinetic exercises
c. Be increased using high repetition, low load PREs
d. Only occur in joints that demonstrate muscle weakness
Be increased using high repetition, low load PREs
A patient with cryoglobulinemia presents to outpatient physical therapy with complaints of lumbar pain. Which of the following should the physical therapist avoid during intervention for this diagnosis?
Most heat packs
Weight-bearing exercises
Muscle energy techniques
Cold pack application
Cold pack application
A physical therapist is assessing the endurance of a 12-year-old female with cystic fibrosis. Which objective screening tool would be most appropriate to quantify the patient’s endurance?
Six-minute walk test
Tinetti Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment
VOMax Test
Romberg test
Six-minute walk test
A physical therapist is performing an examination for an infant that has recently been diagnosed with a congenital her defect. Which of the following clinical signs would not likely be present?
Bradycardia
Poor weight gain
Decreased respiratory rate
Lower extremity swelling
Bradycardia
Besides the anterolateral abdominal muscles, which muscles assists in forced expiration, coughing, sneezing, vomiting, urinating, defecating, and fixation of the trunk during strong movements of the upper limb?
Piriformis
Pelvic diaphragm
Trapezius
Gluteus maximus
Pelvic diaphragm
Which muscle does not flex the knee and extend the hip?
Semitendinosus
Hamstring portion of the adductor magnus
Long head of the biceps femoris
Semimembranosus
Hamstring portion of the adductor magnus
History taking revealed that a patient experiences pain after horseback riding or skating. The pain is located over the anteromedial thigh and is aggravated by resisted abduction. What is the most likely preliminary diagnosis?
Piriformis syndrome
Trochanteric bursitis
Adductor longus strain/tendonitis/tendinosis
Avascular necrosis
Adductor longus strain/tendonitis/tendinosis
A patient has dull posterior hip pain radiating down the leg. He say that he has a limp and that his pain is aggravated by turning his leg outside or with deep pressure near the middle of the right buttock. What is the most likely preliminary diagnosis?
Piriformis syndrome
Trochanteric bursitis
Adductor longus strain/tendonitis/tendinosis
Avascular necrosis
Piriformis syndrome
What is the best imaging modality for detecting the changes in the articular cartilage seen with chondromalacia patella?
Plain film radiography
Bone scan
Magnetic resonance imaging
Computed tomography
Magnetic resonance imaging
Which of the following imaging modalities does not give a radiation dose to the patient?
MRI
CT
Mammography
Bone scan
MRI
A therapist is examining a 3-year-old child who is positioned as follows: supine, hips flexed to 90 degrees, hips fully adducted, and knees flexed. The therapist passively abducts and raises the thigh, applying an anterior shear force to the hip joint. A click at 30 degrees of abduction is noted by the therapist. What orthopedic test is the therapist performing, and what is its significance?
a. Ortolani’s test, hip dislocation
b. Apley’s compression/distraction test, cartilage damage
c. McMurray test, cartilage damage
d. Piston test, hip dislocation
a. Ortolani’s test, hip dislocation
A teenager comes to an outpatient facility with complaints of pain at the tibial tubercle when playing basketball. The therapist notches that the tubercles are abnormally pronounced on bilateral knees. What condition does the patient most likely have?
Jumper’s knees
ACL sprain
Osgood-Schlatter disease
Sever’s disease
Osgood-Schlatter disease
Which of the following is used to treat a patient referred to physical therapy with a diagnosis of Dupuytren’s contracture?
Knee continuous passive motion
Work simulator set for squatting activities
Hand splint
A 2-pound dumbbell
Hand splint
A 17-year-old football player is referred to the outpatient physical therapy clinic with a diagnosis of a recent third-degree medial collateral sprain of the knee. The patient wishes to return to playing football as soon as possible. Which protocol is the best?
a. Fit the patient with a brace that prevents him from actively moving the knee into the last available 20 degrees of extension. Prescribe general lower extremity strengthening with the exception of side-lying hip adduction
b. Do not fit the patient with a brace that prevents him from actively moving the knee into the last available 20 degrees of extension. Avoid all open-chain strengthening for the lower extremity
c. Fit the patient with a brace that prevents him from actively moving the knee into the last available 20 degrees of extension. Avoid all open-chain strengthening for the LE
d. Do not fit the patient with a brace. Prescribe general lower extremity strengthening with the exception of side-lying hip adduction
a. Fit the patient with a brace that prevents him from actively moving the knee into the last available 20 degrees of extension. Prescribe general lower extremity strengthening with the exception of side-lying hip adduction
During an examination, the therapist taps on the flexor retinaculum of the patient’s wrist, which causes tingling in the thumb. What test is this? For what condition does it screen?
Phalen’s test, carpal tunnel
Finkelstein test, De Quervain’s disease
Tinel’s sign, De Quervain’s disease
Tinel’s sign, carpal tunnel
Tinel’s sign, carpal tunnel
A physical therapist is treating a patient with balance deficits. During treatment, the physical therapist notes that large-amplitude changes in the center of mass cause the patient to lose balance. The patient, however, can accurately compensate for small changes nearly every time a change is introduced. What muscles most likely need to be strengthened to help alleviate this dysfunction?
Tibialis anterior, gastrocnemius
Peroneus longus/brevis, tibialis posterior
Rectus abdominis, erector spinae
Iliopsoas, gluteus maximus
Iliopsoas, gluteus maximus
The physical therapist is reading the physician’s interpretation of an x-ray that was taken of the left humerus of a 7-year-old patient. The physician notes in the report the presence of an incomplete fracture on the convex side of the humerus. Which type of fracture is the physician describing?
Comminuted
Avulsion
Greenstick
Segmental
Greenstick