Ptha 1409 Exam 1 Updated Questions And Correct Answers

PTHA 1409 EXAM 1 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Who is the "mother of PT?"
Answer:
Mary McMillan

Question:
2. Where did the original roots of PT start?
Answer:
Greece and Rome

Question:
3. In Greece and Rome, what were the prac-tices of PT?
Answer:
Therapeutic movement, friction, and mas-sages

Question:
4. The PT profession in the early 1900s stemmed from
Answer:
Physical education majors

Question:
5. In the early 1900s, early PT focused on
Answer:
Getting clinical based evidence for how the body works and how it could heal

Question:
6. In the early 1900s, early PT was used to help which populations?
Answer:
Polio, spina bifida, and scoliosis

Question:
7. What is polio?
Answer:
Infantile paralysis that eats away at neurons in the muscle

Question:
8. What was the #1 health issue during the 1930s-1950s?
Answer:
Polio

Question:
9. What was the role of PT's when helping polio patients?

,Answer:
Helping patients figure out how to rewire muscles to be able to function

Question:
10. After WW1, what did PT transition its fo-cus on?
Answer:
Helping wounded soldiers

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11. What is the main focus of PT in today's society?
Answer:
Relieve pain and restore function

Question:
12. What help progress PT to what it is today?
Answer:
Restorative aids that helped soldiers wound-ed in WW's

Question:
13. What is an example of a restorative aid?
Answer:
Amputee devices

Question:
14. Who is Pehr Ling?
Answer:
"Father of PT"

Question:
15. What is the biggest issue with PT in to-day's society?
Answer:
Budget and reimbursement issues from in-surance companies

Question:
16. True or False. A patient is allowed access to PT without a referral.
Answer:
True

Question:
17. Why was the PT degree changes to a doc-torate degree?
Answer:
So that patients could go to PT "medical doc-tor" right away instead of having to visit doc-tor first

Question:
18. Who first used modalities as a means for treatment?
Answer:
John Kellogg

,Question:
19. What does the APTA stand for?
Answer:
American Physical Therapy Association

Question:
20. What does the APTA do?
Answer:
Sets the standards for PT at a national level

Question:
21. What does TPTA stand for?
Answer:
Texas Physical Therapy Association

Question:
22. What does the TPTA do?
Answer:
Sets rules/standards for Texas and provides education access/sets standards for CEU's in the state

Question:
23. What does GEPD stand for?
Answer:
Greater El Paso District

Question:
24. What does the GEPD do?
Answer:
Supports and promoted physical therapy de-velopments in El Paso, TX

Question:
25. What does ECPTOTE stand for?
Answer:
Executive Council of Physical Therapy and Oc-cupational Therapy Examiners

Question:
26. What does ECPTOTE do?
Answer:
In charge of licensure and exams

Question:
27. What does FSBPT stand for?
Answer:
Federation of State Boards of Physical Thera-py

, Question:
28. What does FSBPT do?
Answer:
Registers you for licensure exam

Question:
29. What two organizations work hand-in-hand in the therapy world?
Answer:
ECPTOTE and FSBPT

Question:
30. What are the APTA core values?
Answer:
Accountability Altruism Collaboration Compassion/Caring Duty Excellence Inclusion Integrity
Social Responsibility

Question:
31. What does accountability mean?
Answer:
Being responsible for one's own diverse roles, obligations, and actions to positively influence patients
and their outcomes

Question:
32. What does altruism mean?
Answer:
Primary regard for or devotion of the interest of patients and clients

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33. What does collaboration mean?
Answer:
Working together with patients/clients, fam-ilies, communities, and professionals in health and other
fields to achieve shared goals

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34. What does compassion and caring mean?
Answer:
Desire to identify with or sense something of another's experience, and showing con-cern/empathy to
the needs and values of others

Question:
35. What does duty mean?
Answer:
Commitment to meeting one's obligations to provide effective physical therapist services to patients
and clients

Question:
36. What does excellence mean?