ALC - PTFE reviews

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The Borg rating of perceived exertion scale (RPE) is MOST representative of which type of data scale?

A patient presents to the clinic with signs of lethargy and mild dizziness.  The patient’s resting blood pressure is 100/70.  Which of the following medications is MOST likely to cause this decrease in blood pressure?

Congratulations on making it this far!  If you’re one of the few that will be sitting for the NPTE on Jan. 29, I hope that you’re feeling prepared and calm about the exam.  I would like to share a few helpful hints about the exam that may take the edge off of the stress you’re feeling.

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A 21 year old female patient presents with neck pain that has gradually worsened over the last two weeks.  Upon examination, the patient is noted to have pain with left side bending with left rotation and reports pain at the left facet C5-6 junction.  Hypomobility is also noted with right side-gliding of C6.  The MOST appropriate manipulation would be:

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A 79 year old female presents to outpatient rehabilitation services 6 weeks following a CVA with right hemiplegia. She complains of right shoulder pain working on functional upper extremity movements and has severe shoulder pain when practicing bed mobility activities such as rolling and scooting. On examination, it is observed that the humeral head is inferiorly displaced. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate modality to treat her impairment?

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You are evaluating a 66 year old female who has a history of severe head trauma following a motor vehicle accident.  The patient has difficulty with rapid alternating movements while you perform neurologic testing.  The BEST term to describe this specific impairment is:

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Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas!  If you need some decompression time after gifts and feasts, check out the sample exam question archive. Have a great, awesome...

Here we sit on Dec. 24, 2012, and if your test preparation plan involved waiting for the world to end on Dec. 21, you had better go to “plan B.”  I really did get a big kick out of hearing what some of the doomsday prognosticators had to say concerning the supposed end of time according to the Mayan long-count calendar.  Whatever it was that was going to wipe out the Earth on the winter solstice just didn’t show up.  Now I’m not saying that a rouge planet couldn’t strike Earth and cause some serious mayhem, but you had better not count on it happening this century.