The PTA observes a patient can maintain an upright sitting posture if they hold on to the mat with the uninvolved upper extremity. Utilizing the functional balance grades, the PTA would record this patient’s sitting balance as:

Bathroom accommodations under the ADA include:

A PTA is treating a patient diagnosed with osteoporosis.  Posture analysis indicates increased lordosis in the lumbarspine.  Which of the following exercises would be MOST appropriate to improve this patient’s posture?

Regular tap water would be considered to be which of the following grades of laboratory water?

Which grade of laboratory water is the purest?

The 5% sodium hypochlorite (liquid bleach) solution used to disinfect the hematology analyzer is empty. The available stock is a bottle of 6% Clorox Ultra (6% sodium hypochlorite). Calculate the volume of 6% Clorox Ultra needed to prepare 2 L of the required solution.

To determine if a PWD has low blood sugar, assess whether they are feeling shaky, sweating, irritable, confused, lightheaded or dizzy, or acting drunk or giddy.

A clinical chemistry laboratory is evaluating the precision of a new hemoglobin A1c analyzer. They conducted 30 replicate measurements on a quality control sample and obtained the following results: Mean hemoglobin A1c result: 6.5%Standard deviation: 0.156% Calculate the coefficient of variation (CV) for this set of measurements.

A PTA is treating an adolescent athlete recovering from ACL reconstruction who reports feeling pressure to return to sport despite fear of reinjury. Which of the following strategies is MOST appropriate?

1000 µL of serum is added to a tube that contains 3.0 mL of water. What is the correct dilution factor?