Flex Therapist CEUs

1. Regaining the ability to walk is the highest priority for which group?

2. The ability to walk at 1 year is best predicted from all of the following variables collected within 15 days of injury, except for:

3. Why is the assessment of a patient with SCI an important initial step in physiotherapy management?

4. Studies have reported reasonable reliability of the sensory tests with better reliability for the pinprick test than the light touch test.

5. Progressive resistance training for non-paralyzed muscles not only increases strength but also increases quality of life.

6. Even slight loss of elbow extension will prevent a person with _____ tetraplegia from lifting his/her bodyweight through the upper limbs.

7. Spinal injuries without neurological damage have little effects on respiratory function unless associated with injury to the chest wall.

8. Complete injuries above the _____ region will result in loss of the major respiratory muscle groups for both inspiration and expiration and thus an inability to either fully aerate the lungs or to clear pulmonary secretions, resulting in major vulnerabilities toward pulmonary collapse and infection.

9. The prone position should be adopted in times of respiratory compromise and throughout the process of weaning from mechanical ventilation in complete cord lesions.

10. Regardless of the timing, the method of ventilation for SCI patients requires larger tidal volumes to ensure effective aeration of the lung bases and avoidance of atelectasis and infection.

11. For people with SCI, increasing the amount of physical activity is known to:

12. The addition of a behavioral intervention is successful in preventing the decline in physical activity level after discharge.