Physical Therapy Assistant 151
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
| 100% Pass
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
, 3
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
| 100% Pass
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
, 3
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.
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
