Physical Therapy Assistant 151
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
| A+ Score Assured
Describe the importance of the term"PracticeAct". - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a
guideline for what you are supposed to do in physical therapy. To help limit
the definitions the APTA made the physical therapist scope of practice. It
identifies several actives inherent in the practice of physical therapy.
Impairment - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To cause to weaken, be damaged, or diminish,
as in quality
Disability - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A disadvantage or deficiency, especially a
physical or mental impairment that interferes with or prevents normal
achievement in a particular area.
Patient - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is an individual that has a disorder that require
interventions to improve their functions.
,Client - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is the term used to refer to an individual who seeks
the services of a PT to maintain health or a business that hires a PT for
consultation.
Accountability - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is active acceptance of the responsibility for
diverse roles, obligations, and actions of the physical therapist, including
self-regulation and other behaviors that positively influence patient/client
outcomes, the profession and health needs of society.
Altruism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is the primary regard for or devotion to the
interest of patients/clients, thus assuming the fiduciary responsibility of
placing the needs of the patient/client ahead of the physical therapist's self
interest.
Compassion/caring - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Compassion is the desire to identify
with or sense something of another's experience" a precursor of caring
Caring is the concern, empathy, and consideration for the needs and
values of others.
Excellence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is physical therapy practice that consistently
uses current knowledge theory while understanding personal limits,
integrates judgement and the patient/client perspective, embraces
, advancement, challenges mediocrity, and works toward development of
new knowledge.
Integrity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is steadfast adherence to high ethical principles or
professional standards.
Professional duty - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is the commitment to getting ones
obligations to provide effective physical therapy services to individual
patients/client, to serve the profession, and to positively influence the
health of society.
Social responsibility - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is the promotion of a mutual trust
bewtween the profession and the large public that necessitates responding
to societal needs for health and wellness.
List the 3 key characteristics of a profession. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Autonomy,
ethical standards, and accountability.
What started PT - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The War and the out break of Polio
Identify what the first physical therapist were called. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Reconstruction aides.
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2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
| A+ Score Assured
Describe the importance of the term"PracticeAct". - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a
guideline for what you are supposed to do in physical therapy. To help limit
the definitions the APTA made the physical therapist scope of practice. It
identifies several actives inherent in the practice of physical therapy.
Impairment - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To cause to weaken, be damaged, or diminish,
as in quality
Disability - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A disadvantage or deficiency, especially a
physical or mental impairment that interferes with or prevents normal
achievement in a particular area.
Patient - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is an individual that has a disorder that require
interventions to improve their functions.
,Client - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is the term used to refer to an individual who seeks
the services of a PT to maintain health or a business that hires a PT for
consultation.
Accountability - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is active acceptance of the responsibility for
diverse roles, obligations, and actions of the physical therapist, including
self-regulation and other behaviors that positively influence patient/client
outcomes, the profession and health needs of society.
Altruism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is the primary regard for or devotion to the
interest of patients/clients, thus assuming the fiduciary responsibility of
placing the needs of the patient/client ahead of the physical therapist's self
interest.
Compassion/caring - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Compassion is the desire to identify
with or sense something of another's experience" a precursor of caring
Caring is the concern, empathy, and consideration for the needs and
values of others.
Excellence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is physical therapy practice that consistently
uses current knowledge theory while understanding personal limits,
integrates judgement and the patient/client perspective, embraces
, advancement, challenges mediocrity, and works toward development of
new knowledge.
Integrity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is steadfast adherence to high ethical principles or
professional standards.
Professional duty - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is the commitment to getting ones
obligations to provide effective physical therapy services to individual
patients/client, to serve the profession, and to positively influence the
health of society.
Social responsibility - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is the promotion of a mutual trust
bewtween the profession and the large public that necessitates responding
to societal needs for health and wellness.
List the 3 key characteristics of a profession. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Autonomy,
ethical standards, and accountability.
What started PT - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The War and the out break of Polio
Identify what the first physical therapist were called. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Reconstruction aides.
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COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
