APTA Guide to Physical Therapist Practice Results
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Environmental factors make up the physical, social, and attitudinal environment in which people live and conduct their lives.
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Gait is the manner in which a person walks, characterized by rhythm, cadence, step, stride, and speed.
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Cognitive and mental functions of the brain include both global mental functions, such as consciousness, orientation function, motivation, and impulse control, and specific mental functions, such as attention, memory, emotion, and perception.
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Motor function is the ability to learn or to demonstrate the skillful and efficient assumption, maintenance, modification, and control of voluntary postures and movement patterns.
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Range of motion is the arc through which active and passive movement occurs at a joint or a series of joints and the angle(s) created during this limb or trunk movement.
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Skeletal integrity is the optimal alignment, density, and soundness of the bony structures of the body.
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Ventilation is the movement of a volume of gas into and out of the lungs. Respiration is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide across a membrane either in the lungs or at the cellular level.
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Individuals, communities, and populations can access physical therapist services either by self-referral (sometimes termed "direct access") or by referral from another provider. Other medical providers may refer individuals to physical therapists for a physical therapist examination (including tests
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To establish the diagnosis, prognosis, management plan, and appropriate outcome measures, the physical therapist conducts an examination, which includes a history and physical examination, and an evaluation to interpret and synthesize the examination findings.
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The APTA Guide to Physical Therapist Practice is the American Physical Therapy Association's seminal resource describing physical therapist practice and the foundations upon which that practice is built.