A patient is seen in physical therapy with a referral for an initial examination and intervention 2 days after a left CVA with right hemiparesis. The initial examination reveals flaccidity of the right upper extremity and decreased tone with minimal movement of the right lower extremity. Which of the following would be most appropriate initially for this patient? 

Your patient, who sustained a left CVA 6 weeks ago, has been working on the task of washing in therapy. The patient demonstrates the ability to complete the task consistently with few errors. The patient is occasionally distracted when someone speaks on the overhead pager. Which of the following BEST describes the patient’s stage of motor learning?

Which of the following activities would be appropriate to consider NEXT after a patient has the ability to demonstrate safe overground locomotion indoors?

Your goal for your treatment session today is to focus on sit to stand transfers. Prior to initiating those transfers, your have your patient perform bridging, short arc quads, and partial wall squats. You are having your patient perform:

This approach bases its treatment on the belief that abnormal patterns of movement are due to a release of abnormal postural reflex activity and uses the NDT approach.

One of the most commonly used methods of measuring transfer ability is the transfer section of the __________, which measures the amount of physical assistance a person requires to transfer on a 7-point scale.

A patient presents to therapy with poor motor control of the lower extremities. The PTA determines that to work efficiently toward the goal of returning the patient to his prior level of ambulation, the intervention will be based on the theory regarding stages of motor control. Which of the following is the accurate sequence that you will follow?

You are working with George, whose diagnosis is R CVA. You notice that George does not acknowledge your presence by turning his head towards you when you address him from the left side. Which of the following would best describe this deficit? 

You are treating a patient with a diagnosis of CVA. You have been working on interventions to improve trunk control, and you patient is now able to reach overhead, down to the floor, and across mid-line for objects without losing her balance. What will be the next logical step in the progression of your patient?  

Question 1 (10 pts = 10 questions x 1 point each): Choose the appropriate answers for any 10 of the following questions. Write your choice clearly. 1. Which region of convergence (ROC) yields a stable, but not a causal LTI system, if ? −3 < Re{s} < 2 Re{s} > 2 Unit circle Re{s} < −3   2. If x(t) has Nyquist frequency , what is the Nyquist frequency of