Ms. Carpa L. Tunnel is a 30 year-old secretary with a recent diagnosis of CTS in both UE.  She is employed an administrative assistant and must type up to 20 words per minute for 5-10 minutes between breaks.  She also uses a computer mouse.  She has been evaluated the OTR and the goals include: Pt will be independent in the use of strategies to avoid flexion of the wrist while typing or using the computer mouse Pt will be (I) in the use of exercises at work to manage symptoms. Pt will be able to type for 10 minutes at 30 words per minute while maintaining proper neutral wrist posture   You are training Ms. Tunnell to avoid flexed wrist positioning while typing, a good exercise to practice use of the fingers while avoiding wrist flexion would be:

A therapeutic technique designed to increase mobility of soft tissue that has adaptively shortened and become hypomobile is:

A COTA is instructing a patient who has wrist extensor tendinitis in his home exercise program.  The patient needs to be instructed in a superficial heating modality prior to beginning his exercises.  Which of the following would be most effective for this patient to include in his home program?

Plyometric training would be appropriate for:

When performing an US treatment, it is always important to:

Balance and coordination tests are often separated from balance and coordination treatment techniques.

When a muscle contracts, the __________ fibers are generally recruited to fire first, because there is a smaller amount of force needed to cause a contraction and because they are used more in ADL type tasks.

Mr. I.B. Sedentary is a 55 year-old male who recently was rehabilitating a (R) Total Knee Replacement.  He was released by his MD for full activities (including recreational activities.)   He states his knee feels really good but he fatigues very quickly.    You are asked to council regarding appropriate long-term endurance exercise program to help him lose weight and continue to improve his endurance.  Assume he is healthy and takes no medication unless stated otherwise. In accordance with the recommendations from the American College of Sports Medicine, you would recommend him to participate in which of the following:

As the force of a concentric muscle contraction increases, the velocity at which the limb can move against that resistance will _______.

The purpose of a cool down segment included in an exercises program is to: