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
To reduce fall risk, the ACSM recommends that older adults perform balance or "neuromotor" training at least how many days per week?
2 to 3
In a common home assessment for ankle dorsiflexion, you stand with your heel planted and move what body part forward to touch the wall?
Knee
In a standard human body, how many vertebrae make up the lumbar spine?
5
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