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| A profession that serves to preserve and restore maximum function by seeking to prevent and rehabilitate impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities and by maintaining and promoting fitness, health, and quality of life. |
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| Abnormalities of anatomic, physiologic, or psychologic origin within specific organs or systems of the body. |
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| Give 2 examples of an impairment |
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| Decreased ROM, muscle weakness |
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| Restrictions or inability to perform activities of daily living skills. |
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| Give 3 examples of functional limitations. |
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| Transfers, Gait, Bed Mobility |
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| Restriction of or inability to perform a normal range of ADL |
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| Name the 4 categories of a disability |
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Physical
Mental
Social
Emotional |
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| Obtaining a patient history, performing relevant systems reviews, and selecting and administering specific tests and measures to obtain care. |
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| Making clinical judgements based on data gathered from the examination. |
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| The process and end result of evaluating information obtained from the patient examination, which the PT then organizes into defined clusters, syndromes, or categories to help determine the most appropriate intervention strategies. |
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| The determination of the level of maximal improvement that might be attained and the time to reach that level. |
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| The purposeful and skilled interaction of the PT with the patient, using various methods and techniques to produce changes in the patient's condition consistent with the diagnosis and prognosis. In addition, at each step of hte patient/client management process, the PT consideres the possible patient outcomes. |
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| Name 2 diagnostic classification systems |
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1. Pathoanatomic Model
2. Disablement Model |
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| Which diagnostic classification model does the Guide emphasize? |
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| This model takes a history, physical exam, and invasive tests and measures. |
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| This model takes a history, physical exam, and non-invasive tests and measures. |
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| This model makes a diagnosis by a specific structure, chooses an intervention such a meds or surgery, and the outcome is to cure the disease or repair the tissue. |
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| This model finds a diagnosis such as an impairment or functional limitation, creates an intervention to improve the impairment, and the outcome will improve functional performance and the goal is not to cure. The outcome is to prevent disability. |
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| This profession seeks to improve impairments by improving functional limitations so that no disability exists. |
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| This profession attempts to teach the patient how to live with the disability. |
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