An OTA is treating a 25-year-old female who is complaining of widespread pain in her body, especially around her joints. The OTA documents a butterfly-shaped rash on the individual’s face and skin lesions on her body. This individual would MOST LIKELY be experiencing symptoms of which disorder?

An OTA is working with a client who has recently undergone surgery to relieve back pain. The OTA is working with the client to prepare him for discharge and to eventually go back to work in the healthcare field. Which technique will the OTA MOST LIKELY be instructing the client on in relation to safe lifting and back precautions?

An OTA is working with a client who was in a car accident resulting in a T8 SCI. The client expresses concern about having a sexual relationship with his spouse. The OTA has already discussed the specific impact of the SCI level on sensation, tumescence, and ejaculation, and the client wants more information on mutual masturbation positioning as a form of sexual expression to share with his wife. The OTA is planning to discuss mutual masturbation as a form of sexual expression. What MUST the OTA ask the client about before discussing the topic?

An OTA attended a course on targeted muscle reinnervation. In explaining it to her colleagues, which clients are the MOST appropriate for this procedure?

An OTA is working with a client who had a C4 SCI and has atelectasis. What is the BEST action the OTA can take during therapy to help support the prevention of secondary respiratory complications?

An OTA is working with a client in donning the lower extremity prosthesis. The OTA thinks that the client’s prosthesis is not fitting properly and the client has a little too much room between the limb and the socket. What would be the next best short-term choice for the OTA?

A client who is awaiting her first lower extremity prosthesis is experiencing hypersensitivity of her incision site. What is the PRIMARY reason to incorporate a desensitization program in the client’s plan of care?

You are a forensic pathologist called to a grave site recently discovered.  Unfortunately, all you could find was the pelvic girdle.  Explain how you would know from just these bones whether the body was from a male or female?  (Give TWO specific details using correct terminology.)

Your dog was running back to you on a hike in the woods with a bone fragment in his mouth.  You look at the bone and realize it’s a right tibia.  What landmark helped you determine this bone was a right tibia? What are the possible MOVEMENTS of the articulation the landmark is associated with?  

What is the power rating of a high frequency generator operating at 100 kV and 500 mA?