A PTA assesses the functional strength of a patient’s hip extensors when observing the patient ascending stairs. What type of contraction occurs in the hip extensors during this activity?

Alicia is a 7 year old with severe tetraplegia, CP. She is non-ambulatory and completely dependent on her caregivers for ADL’s and has very little active movement. She has spasticity in many flexor groups and personal care/hygiene is becoming very difficult. She may be a good candidate for which spasticity management approach?

The purpose of cellular respiration is to

Plants sometimes release more carbon dioxide than they take in.

You are manually muscle testing a patient as part of a progress report. You note full ROM with gravity minimized. What grade would you give this muscle?

John has spastic quadriceps and you would like to have him in tall kneeling. Which of the following is NOT clinical rationale to support tall kneeling for tone inhibition?

The Ashworth, Modified Ashworth and Tardieu scales could be used to assess muscle tone for all of the following EXCEPT:

For scoliosis detection, which of the following screening techniques is effective for the early adolescent population?

When doing range for increasing ankle dorsiflexion:

During development, if postural muscles are weak, the phasic muscles may be used as stabilizers. This may result in the following: