PEAT Exam Review 2025/2026 Exam
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Central cord syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔typically affects the upper
extremities more than the lower extremities. Sensory impairments are
typically less severe than motor impairments.
Anterior cord syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔presents clinically as a loss of
motor function and loss of the sense of pain and temperature below the
level of the lesion. Proprioception, light touch, and vibratory sense are
generally preserved.
Cauda equina syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔saddle anesthesia and areflexic
bowel and bladder. Lower extremity paralysis and paresis are variable
depending on the extent of the injury.
,Brown-Séquard syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ipsilateral paralysis and
sensory loss and contralateral loss of sense of pain and temperature.
4. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A patient with atrial flutter suddenly becomes extremely
lightheaded while exercising and appears to lose consciousness. Which of
the following physiologic responses BEST explains the change in the
patient's status?
1.Increased filling of the ventricles
2.Increased system congestion
3.Decreased atrial depolarization
4.Decreased blood traveling to the brain
Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Condition
characterized by pain and swelling within the muscular compartmnets of
the LE that is often precipitated by exercise
4. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A physical therapist assistant suspects that a patient
being treated for shin splints may actually have chronic exertional
,compartment syndrome. Where should the assistant palpate to assess if
perfusion to the foot has been affected?
1.Anterior to the lateral malleolus
2.Posterior to the lateral malleolus
3.Anterior to the medial malleolus
4.Posterior to the medial malleolus
Dorsalis pedis artery and posterior tibial artery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Two main
sources of blood supply to the foot
3. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A physical therapist assistant reads in a patient's
medical chart that the patient has been prescribed albuterol. Which of the
following conditions would MOST likely require the use of this medication?
1.Breast cancer
2.Angina pectoris
3.Exercise-induced asthma
4.Spinal cord injury
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, Albuterol - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔medication that is commonly prescribed for
conditions from bronchoconstriction such as asthma COPD.
Atrial tachycardia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔R-R interval is irregular with a rate
between 100 and 200 beats per minute
Sinus Arrythmia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔R-R interval is irregular with a rate
between 40 and 100 beats per minute
Sinus tachycardia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔R-R interval is regular with a rate
greater than 100 beats per minute
sinus bradycardia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔R-R interval is regular with a rate less
than 60 beats per minute
4 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A patient exercising in an outpatient facility informs their
physical therapist assistant that they are experiencing chest pain. After
resting for 20 minutes the patient's condition is unchanged. However, the
patient insists on continuing with the session. Which of the following actions
is the MOST appropriate for the assistant to take?
1.Allow the patient to resume exercise and continue to monitor the patient
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Central cord syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔typically affects the upper
extremities more than the lower extremities. Sensory impairments are
typically less severe than motor impairments.
Anterior cord syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔presents clinically as a loss of
motor function and loss of the sense of pain and temperature below the
level of the lesion. Proprioception, light touch, and vibratory sense are
generally preserved.
Cauda equina syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔saddle anesthesia and areflexic
bowel and bladder. Lower extremity paralysis and paresis are variable
depending on the extent of the injury.
,Brown-Séquard syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ipsilateral paralysis and
sensory loss and contralateral loss of sense of pain and temperature.
4. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A patient with atrial flutter suddenly becomes extremely
lightheaded while exercising and appears to lose consciousness. Which of
the following physiologic responses BEST explains the change in the
patient's status?
1.Increased filling of the ventricles
2.Increased system congestion
3.Decreased atrial depolarization
4.Decreased blood traveling to the brain
Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Condition
characterized by pain and swelling within the muscular compartmnets of
the LE that is often precipitated by exercise
4. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A physical therapist assistant suspects that a patient
being treated for shin splints may actually have chronic exertional
,compartment syndrome. Where should the assistant palpate to assess if
perfusion to the foot has been affected?
1.Anterior to the lateral malleolus
2.Posterior to the lateral malleolus
3.Anterior to the medial malleolus
4.Posterior to the medial malleolus
Dorsalis pedis artery and posterior tibial artery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Two main
sources of blood supply to the foot
3. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A physical therapist assistant reads in a patient's
medical chart that the patient has been prescribed albuterol. Which of the
following conditions would MOST likely require the use of this medication?
1.Breast cancer
2.Angina pectoris
3.Exercise-induced asthma
4.Spinal cord injury
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, Albuterol - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔medication that is commonly prescribed for
conditions from bronchoconstriction such as asthma COPD.
Atrial tachycardia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔R-R interval is irregular with a rate
between 100 and 200 beats per minute
Sinus Arrythmia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔R-R interval is irregular with a rate
between 40 and 100 beats per minute
Sinus tachycardia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔R-R interval is regular with a rate
greater than 100 beats per minute
sinus bradycardia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔R-R interval is regular with a rate less
than 60 beats per minute
4 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A patient exercising in an outpatient facility informs their
physical therapist assistant that they are experiencing chest pain. After
resting for 20 minutes the patient's condition is unchanged. However, the
patient insists on continuing with the session. Which of the following actions
is the MOST appropriate for the assistant to take?
1.Allow the patient to resume exercise and continue to monitor the patient
