CLO 4: Normal vital sign responses to aerobic conditioning exercises do not include which of the following?

Known therapeutic results from hydrostatic pressure in aquatic therapy include: 

A patient presented with reports of persistent wrist pain after painting a house 3 weeks ago.  The PT POC includes soft tissue management for de Quervain’s tenosynovitis.  The PTA should perform soft tissue massage:

CLO 8: You are assigned to work with Patient A who is s/p total knee replacement.  The patient receives exercise, gait training, and modalities.  You observe that the patient is demonstrating increased swelling and limited ROM following aggressive resisted knee extension exercises. What is the MOST appropriate response?

Which of the following is the best definition of what Physical Therapy is and does? (You will be asked this question by many patients and their family members)

A PTA completes a quantitative gait analysis on a patient rehabilitating from a lower extremity injury. As part of the assessment the PTA measures the number of steps taken by the patient in a 30 second period. This measurement technique can be used to measure:

CLO 4: Which of the following should be used to calculate a patient’s Target Heart rate?

Your supervising therapist has completed the IE on a patient who is 3 weeks s/p PCL repair. The physician has discontinued use of the knee immobilizer. The main concern at this early stage of rehab is:

Your patient who is s/p TKA has been coming to aquatic PT for 3 weeks and demonstrates increased LE strength. He had been performing squats in 4 ft of water depth. How can you progress this patient’s exercise to increase exercise intensity?

You are planning on collecting data on a patient with a diagnosis of a torn meniscus.  Which of the following tests would be appropriate to use for this patient when he comes to the physical therapy department?