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A 59 year old male patient is being evaluated for left shoulder pain. The patient reports that his shoulder pain is closely associated with activity, including stress at work. The patient reports that at worst, the pain radiates into his jaw, and he feels shortness of breath which subsides with rest. What would the MOST appropriate intervention be?
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A patient presents to the inpatient rehabilitation unit who has suffered a vertebro-basilar CVA and has difficulty adducting and depressing his eyes. Which cranial nerve is the MOST likely cause of this impairment?
When a student is preparing for the National Physical Therapy Exam, it can be nerve wracking trying to figure out what is the best way to really get ready for this HUGE 
exam. It condenses 3 years of graduate school into 250 questions that are supposed to be an indicator of your clinical knowledge as a physical therapist. So how do you prepare?
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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:
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.