PTA Exam 1 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Key steps in patient/client management - ✔✔- examination of patient
- evaluation of the data and identification of problems
- determination of PT diganosis and prognosis
- intervention
- reexamination/eval of treatment outcomes
Why could treatment outcomes not be met - ✔✔- goals and outcomes may not have
been realistic given the clinical problems and database
- interventions may not have been the appropriate level to challenge patient (too easy or
too difficult)
- patient not sufficiently motivated
Plan of Care (POC) - ✔✔anticipated patient management through goals and expected
outcomes
essential elements of goal or outcome - ✔✔individual
behavior/activity
condition
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restorative interventions: - ✔✔aimed at improving impairments, activity limitations,
and participation restrictions and recovery of function
compensatory interventions: - ✔✔directed toward promoting optimal function using
new patterns
Acute stress disorder (ASD) - ✔✔systems that must range in duration between 2 days
and 3 weeks
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - ✔✔a disorder characterized by haunting
memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or
insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
Health - ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity
health condition - ✔✔an umbrella term for disease, disorder, injury, or trauma and may
include other circumstances, such as aging, stress congenital anomaly, or genetic
predisposition
body functions - ✔✔physiological functions of body systems including psychological
functions
body structures - ✔✔anatomical parts of the body such as organs, limbs, and their
components.
impairments - ✔✔the problems an individual may have in body function or structure
activity - ✔✔the execution of a task or action by an individual
functional mobility skills - ✔✔transfers, walking, lifting, or carrying objects
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, basic activities of daily living - ✔✔toileting, maintaining hygiene, bathing, dressing,
eating, drinking, and having social interactions.
participation - ✔✔an individual's involvement in a life situation, the societal perspective
of functioning
participation restrictions - ✔✔problems an individual may experience with involvement
in daily life situations and societal interactions.
instrumental activities of daily living - ✔✔housecleaning, preparing meals, shopping,
telephoning or other modes of communication, and managing finances, as well as work
and leisure activities.
performance - ✔✔describes what an individual does in his or her current environment,
which includes use of assistive devices or personal assistance, whenever the individual
uses them to perform actions or tasks.
performance qualifiers - ✔✔indicate the extent of participation restriction in performing
tasks or actions in an individual's current real-life environment.
capacity - ✔✔describes an individual's ability to execute a task or an action.
capacity qualifiers - ✔✔indicate the extent of activity limitation and are used to describe
an individual's highest probable level of functioning
contextual factors - ✔✔represent the entire background of an individual's life and living
situation.
environmental factors - ✔✔make up the physical, social, and attitudinal environmental
factors and personal factors.
personal factors - ✔✔particular background of an individual's life, including gender,
age, coping styles, social background, education professional, past and current
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AND ANSWERS
Key steps in patient/client management - ✔✔- examination of patient
- evaluation of the data and identification of problems
- determination of PT diganosis and prognosis
- intervention
- reexamination/eval of treatment outcomes
Why could treatment outcomes not be met - ✔✔- goals and outcomes may not have
been realistic given the clinical problems and database
- interventions may not have been the appropriate level to challenge patient (too easy or
too difficult)
- patient not sufficiently motivated
Plan of Care (POC) - ✔✔anticipated patient management through goals and expected
outcomes
essential elements of goal or outcome - ✔✔individual
behavior/activity
condition
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,time
restorative interventions: - ✔✔aimed at improving impairments, activity limitations,
and participation restrictions and recovery of function
compensatory interventions: - ✔✔directed toward promoting optimal function using
new patterns
Acute stress disorder (ASD) - ✔✔systems that must range in duration between 2 days
and 3 weeks
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - ✔✔a disorder characterized by haunting
memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or
insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
Health - ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity
health condition - ✔✔an umbrella term for disease, disorder, injury, or trauma and may
include other circumstances, such as aging, stress congenital anomaly, or genetic
predisposition
body functions - ✔✔physiological functions of body systems including psychological
functions
body structures - ✔✔anatomical parts of the body such as organs, limbs, and their
components.
impairments - ✔✔the problems an individual may have in body function or structure
activity - ✔✔the execution of a task or action by an individual
functional mobility skills - ✔✔transfers, walking, lifting, or carrying objects
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, basic activities of daily living - ✔✔toileting, maintaining hygiene, bathing, dressing,
eating, drinking, and having social interactions.
participation - ✔✔an individual's involvement in a life situation, the societal perspective
of functioning
participation restrictions - ✔✔problems an individual may experience with involvement
in daily life situations and societal interactions.
instrumental activities of daily living - ✔✔housecleaning, preparing meals, shopping,
telephoning or other modes of communication, and managing finances, as well as work
and leisure activities.
performance - ✔✔describes what an individual does in his or her current environment,
which includes use of assistive devices or personal assistance, whenever the individual
uses them to perform actions or tasks.
performance qualifiers - ✔✔indicate the extent of participation restriction in performing
tasks or actions in an individual's current real-life environment.
capacity - ✔✔describes an individual's ability to execute a task or an action.
capacity qualifiers - ✔✔indicate the extent of activity limitation and are used to describe
an individual's highest probable level of functioning
contextual factors - ✔✔represent the entire background of an individual's life and living
situation.
environmental factors - ✔✔make up the physical, social, and attitudinal environmental
factors and personal factors.
personal factors - ✔✔particular background of an individual's life, including gender,
age, coping styles, social background, education professional, past and current
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