Physical Therapy Assistant 151
Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
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Describe the importance of the term"PracticeAct". - ✔✔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 - ✔✔To cause to weaken, be damaged, or diminish, as in quality
Disability - ✔✔A disadvantage or deficiency, especially a physical or mental
impairment that interferes with or prevents normal achievement in a particular area.
Patient - ✔✔is an individual that has a disorder that require interventions to improve
their functions.
Client - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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.
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,Altruism - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔is physical therapy practice that consistently uses current knowledge
theory while understanding personal limits, integrates judgement and the
patient/client perspective, embraces advancement, challenges mediocrity, and works
toward development of new knowledge.
Integrity - ✔✔is steadfast adherence to high ethical principles or professional standards.
Professional duty - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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. - ✔✔Autonomy, ethical standards, and
accountability.
What started PT - ✔✔The War and the out break of Polio
Identify what the first physical therapist were called. - ✔✔Reconstruction aides.
Identify the name of the first physical therapy association. - ✔✔First physical therapist
were called the american women physical therapeutic association.
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, Identify who was the first president of the physical therapy association and first
physical therapist. - ✔✔Mary McMillan was the president of the "american women
physical therapeutic association" and also the first first "physical therapist."
Describe how the education requirements have change for the physical therapist over
the years. - ✔✔They changed it to a baccalaureate in 1960. Then changed it to a masters
in the 1970s
and now it is at a doctorate
Describe the APTA's Vision Statement for Physical Therapy 2020. - ✔✔Basically in 2020
the APTA wants physical therapist to have their doctors of physical therapy and who
may be board certified specialists.
List the responsibilities that are solely those of the physical therapist. - ✔✔1.
interpretation of referrals when available.
2. initial examination, evaluation, diagnosis, and prognosis
3. development or modification of a plan of care which is based on the initial
examination or reexamination and which includes the physical therapy goals and
outcomes.
4. determination of when the expertise and decision-making capability of the physical
therapist requires the physical therapist to personally render physical therapy
interventions and when it may be appropriate to utilize the physical therapist assistant
5. Reexamination of the patient/client in light of their goals, and revision of the plan of
care when indicated.
6. Establishment of the discharge plan and documentation of discharge
summary/status.
7. Oversight of all documentation for services rendered to each patient/client.
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Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
100% Pass
Describe the importance of the term"PracticeAct". - ✔✔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 - ✔✔To cause to weaken, be damaged, or diminish, as in quality
Disability - ✔✔A disadvantage or deficiency, especially a physical or mental
impairment that interferes with or prevents normal achievement in a particular area.
Patient - ✔✔is an individual that has a disorder that require interventions to improve
their functions.
Client - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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.
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,Altruism - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔is physical therapy practice that consistently uses current knowledge
theory while understanding personal limits, integrates judgement and the
patient/client perspective, embraces advancement, challenges mediocrity, and works
toward development of new knowledge.
Integrity - ✔✔is steadfast adherence to high ethical principles or professional standards.
Professional duty - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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. - ✔✔Autonomy, ethical standards, and
accountability.
What started PT - ✔✔The War and the out break of Polio
Identify what the first physical therapist were called. - ✔✔Reconstruction aides.
Identify the name of the first physical therapy association. - ✔✔First physical therapist
were called the american women physical therapeutic association.
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, Identify who was the first president of the physical therapy association and first
physical therapist. - ✔✔Mary McMillan was the president of the "american women
physical therapeutic association" and also the first first "physical therapist."
Describe how the education requirements have change for the physical therapist over
the years. - ✔✔They changed it to a baccalaureate in 1960. Then changed it to a masters
in the 1970s
and now it is at a doctorate
Describe the APTA's Vision Statement for Physical Therapy 2020. - ✔✔Basically in 2020
the APTA wants physical therapist to have their doctors of physical therapy and who
may be board certified specialists.
List the responsibilities that are solely those of the physical therapist. - ✔✔1.
interpretation of referrals when available.
2. initial examination, evaluation, diagnosis, and prognosis
3. development or modification of a plan of care which is based on the initial
examination or reexamination and which includes the physical therapy goals and
outcomes.
4. determination of when the expertise and decision-making capability of the physical
therapist requires the physical therapist to personally render physical therapy
interventions and when it may be appropriate to utilize the physical therapist assistant
5. Reexamination of the patient/client in light of their goals, and revision of the plan of
care when indicated.
6. Establishment of the discharge plan and documentation of discharge
summary/status.
7. Oversight of all documentation for services rendered to each patient/client.
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