Physical Therapy Trivia
From 'jelly donut' spines to the RICE protocol, see if you have the range of motion to flex your knowledge without needing a cold pack.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
While commonly used for chronic pain, heat therapy should only be applied to a traumatic knee injury after which clinical sign has subsided?
Swelling
Before expanding into sports clinics in the 1950s, physical therapy was primarily provided in what specific medical setting to treat wounded soldiers and polio patients?
Hospitals
Which U.S. president's rehabilitation at Warm Springs, Georgia, significantly helped popularize hydrotherapy and pool exercises for the treatment of polio?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Created in the late 1990s by Gray Cook and Lee Burton, the Functional Movement Screen was originally designed to identify injury risks in what specific group?
Athletes
During the height of the 20th-century polio epidemics, early physical therapists primarily developed specialized rehabilitation programs to strengthen and re-educate what body parts?
Muscles