DHS Chapter 8 - Therapy and
Rehabilitation Exam 2026 Questions and
Answers
Rehabilitation - Correct answer-Restoration, after a disease or injury, of the ability
to function in a normal or near-normal manner
Therapy and rehabilitation careers - Correct answer-Focus on helping people to
develop or recover the ability to move without pain and to perform tasks of
everyday life
Physical therapists - Correct answer-Help people who have been injured, are in
pain, or suffer from some other disabling condition to recover or improve in their
ability to carry out routine life activities
Patients of physical therapists - Correct answer-People with low-back pain,
arthritis, cerebral palsy; people who've broken a leg in a car accident, torn a rotator
cuff playing tennis; people who've had strokes, have suffered spinal cord injuries;
soldiers who've lost arms or legs
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,2nd - Correct answer-It noted that physical therapists ranked ------ only to clergy in
job satisfaction in a recent survey
50 Best Careers of 2010 and 2009 - Correct answer-The U.S. News and World
Report included physical therapy in its:
World War I - Correct answer-The physical therapy profession began during
_______________, with the rehabilitation of wounded U.S. soldiers
1917 - Correct answer-Year in which the surgeon general of the army established
that trained 800 individuals, called reconstruction aides, in physical therapy
Reconstruction aides - Correct answer-Aides (who were exceedingly women) who
helped work with veterans either in the civilian sector or in veterans' hospitals to
help them regain normal activities of daily living
American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association - Correct answer-Original
version of the APTA, founded in 1921 by a group of reconstruction aides who had
served in the war
American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) - Correct answer-National
association of physical therapists in the U.S. today; converted from the original
American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association
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,National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (March of Dimes) - Correct answer-
Funded student recruitment drives, scholarships, salaries for new faculty, and
faculty training programs, especially during the polio epidemics of the 1940s and
1950s; increased the demand for therapists
federally-funded programs - Correct answer-During the war, many people entered
the profession through __________________ that trained college graduates with
degrees in physical education and other related areas
1968 - Correct answer-Congress authorized outpatient physical therapy services for
the Medicare program, which boosted demand for these services; happened after
polio largely disappeared
Salk and Sabin vaccines - Correct answer-Vaccines that were made to combat polio
Professional Examination Service & APTA - Correct answer-Worked together to
develop a competency exam for entry-level physical therapists and made it
available to state licensing boards in 1954
45 - Correct answer-By the end of the 1950s, ______ states had enacted physical
therapy practice laws
Master's or doctoral - Correct answer-Physical therapist's degree
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, Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) - Correct
answer-Accredits physical therapist educational programs
PT Doctoral degree programs - Correct answer-Take 3 years
PT master's degree programs - Correct answer-Take 2 - 2 1/2 years
Academic classes, lab work, clinical work - Correct answer-Accredited PT
programs include:
Accredited PT programs typically cover: - Correct answer-Biological and physical
sciences and behavioral sciences
Biological and physical sciences (PT) - Correct answer-Anatomy/cellular biology
Physiology
Exercise physiology
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Behavioral sciences - Correct answer-Applied psychology
Applied sociology
Communication
Clinical reasoning
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Rehabilitation Exam 2026 Questions and
Answers
Rehabilitation - Correct answer-Restoration, after a disease or injury, of the ability
to function in a normal or near-normal manner
Therapy and rehabilitation careers - Correct answer-Focus on helping people to
develop or recover the ability to move without pain and to perform tasks of
everyday life
Physical therapists - Correct answer-Help people who have been injured, are in
pain, or suffer from some other disabling condition to recover or improve in their
ability to carry out routine life activities
Patients of physical therapists - Correct answer-People with low-back pain,
arthritis, cerebral palsy; people who've broken a leg in a car accident, torn a rotator
cuff playing tennis; people who've had strokes, have suffered spinal cord injuries;
soldiers who've lost arms or legs
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,2nd - Correct answer-It noted that physical therapists ranked ------ only to clergy in
job satisfaction in a recent survey
50 Best Careers of 2010 and 2009 - Correct answer-The U.S. News and World
Report included physical therapy in its:
World War I - Correct answer-The physical therapy profession began during
_______________, with the rehabilitation of wounded U.S. soldiers
1917 - Correct answer-Year in which the surgeon general of the army established
that trained 800 individuals, called reconstruction aides, in physical therapy
Reconstruction aides - Correct answer-Aides (who were exceedingly women) who
helped work with veterans either in the civilian sector or in veterans' hospitals to
help them regain normal activities of daily living
American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association - Correct answer-Original
version of the APTA, founded in 1921 by a group of reconstruction aides who had
served in the war
American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) - Correct answer-National
association of physical therapists in the U.S. today; converted from the original
American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association
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,National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (March of Dimes) - Correct answer-
Funded student recruitment drives, scholarships, salaries for new faculty, and
faculty training programs, especially during the polio epidemics of the 1940s and
1950s; increased the demand for therapists
federally-funded programs - Correct answer-During the war, many people entered
the profession through __________________ that trained college graduates with
degrees in physical education and other related areas
1968 - Correct answer-Congress authorized outpatient physical therapy services for
the Medicare program, which boosted demand for these services; happened after
polio largely disappeared
Salk and Sabin vaccines - Correct answer-Vaccines that were made to combat polio
Professional Examination Service & APTA - Correct answer-Worked together to
develop a competency exam for entry-level physical therapists and made it
available to state licensing boards in 1954
45 - Correct answer-By the end of the 1950s, ______ states had enacted physical
therapy practice laws
Master's or doctoral - Correct answer-Physical therapist's degree
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, Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) - Correct
answer-Accredits physical therapist educational programs
PT Doctoral degree programs - Correct answer-Take 3 years
PT master's degree programs - Correct answer-Take 2 - 2 1/2 years
Academic classes, lab work, clinical work - Correct answer-Accredited PT
programs include:
Accredited PT programs typically cover: - Correct answer-Biological and physical
sciences and behavioral sciences
Biological and physical sciences (PT) - Correct answer-Anatomy/cellular biology
Physiology
Exercise physiology
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Behavioral sciences - Correct answer-Applied psychology
Applied sociology
Communication
Clinical reasoning
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